What is recorded here

Muddy feet on the tump, cold chaps on the hands, a knife at the belt and a sack of oats for the road. The man above knew those marks because he had worn them himself before he stopped running and became the wall that watched the valley.

The National Heritage List for England records Thruxton Tump, a motte castle at Thruxton Court as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Thruxton Tump is a motte-and-bailey castle built in the late 11th or early 12th century, likely by a Norman lord following the Norman Conquest. It is important as a well-preserved example of early medieval military architecture in southern England.

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