Castle Bytham Village Defences
Has been described as a Certain Urban Defence
There are earthwork remains
| Name | Castle Bytham Village Defences |
| Alternative Names | Biham |
| Historic Country | Lincolnshire |
| Modern Authority | Lincolnshire |
| 1974 Authority | Lincolnshire |
| Civil Parish | Castle Bytham |
Castle Bytham: Signs of bank around village adjoining motte and bailey (Brown. pp. 76-7). (Bond 2001)
This site is a scheduled monument protected by law
Not Listed
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
| OS Map Grid Reference | SK990185 |
| Latitude | 52.7537117004395 |
| Longitude | -0.536700010299683 |
| Eastings | 499070 |
| Northings | 318590 |
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Books
- Oliver Creighton and Stephen Rippon, 2017, 'Conquest, colonisation and the countryside: archaeology and the mid-11th- to mid-12th-century rural landscape' in Dawn M Hadley and Christopher Dyer, The Archaeology of the 11th Century Continuities and Transformations (Routledge) p. 57-87
- Osborne, Mike, 2010, Defending Lincolnshire: A Military History from Conquest to Cold War (The History Press) p. 53
- Creighton, O.H. and Higham, R.A., 2005, Medieval Town Walls (Stroud: Tempus) p. 79, 267
- Brown, R.Allen, 1989, Castles from the Air (Cambridge University Press) p. 76-77
Journals
- Bond J., 2001, 'Earthen Castles, Outer Enclosures and the Earthworks at Ascott d'Oilly Castle, Oxfordshire' Oxoniensia Vol. 46 p. 67-8 (Appendix: Earthwork castles with attached village enclosures) online copy