Mount Bures Village Enclosure
Has been described as a Possible Urban Defence
There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains
| Name | Mount Bures Village Enclosure |
| Alternative Names | |
| Historic Country | Essex |
| Modern Authority | Essex |
| 1974 Authority | Essex |
| Civil Parish | Mount Bures |
Possible village enclosure. Hint on air photo of part of rectangular enclosure to W of church.
Not scheduled
Not Listed
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
| OS Map Grid Reference | TL904324 |
| Latitude | 51.9581489562988 |
| Longitude | 0.770449995994568 |
| Eastings | 590400 |
| Northings | 232400 |
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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
- Creighton, O.H. and Higham, R.A., 2005, Medieval Town Walls (Stroud: Tempus) p. 262
- Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles of East Anglia (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 36 (mention)
- Cooper, Janet (ed), 2001, VCH Essex Vol. 10 p. 68-71 (poor) online transcription
- King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 1 p. 145, 148 (possible)
Journals
- Creighton, O.H., 2004, ''The Rich Man in his Castle, The Poor Man at His Gate': Castle Baileys and Settlement Patterns in Norman England' Cha^teau Gaillard Vol. 21 p. 25-36