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Twelfth century tower keep castle, including sites of an eleventh century motte and bailey castle, an Anglian cemetery and a Romano-British settlement

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Roman, Anglian and castle people all claimed the same ground before stone towers rose above older earthworks. The layering suggests a long argument about who owns memory and whose deaths deserve recognition.
The National Heritage List for England records Twelfth century tower keep castle, including sites of an eleventh century motte and bailey castle, an Anglian cemetery and a Romano-British settlement 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.
Built initially as an eleventh-century motte and bailey castle and later replaced by a twelfth-century tower keep, the site is important for its layered history spanning from Romano-British settlement through to the medieval period, illustrating long-term strategic and military use of the location.

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