Middleton Motte
Has been described as a Certain Timber Castle (Motte)
There are earthwork remains
| Name | Middleton Motte |
| Alternative Names | Middleton Mount |
| Historic Country | Norfolk |
| Modern Authority | Norfolk |
| 1974 Authority | Norfolk |
| Civil Parish | Middleton |
Motte and bailey castle. The motte is 45m in diameter and 10m high with a platform on the top 9m across. It is encircled by a ditch 8m wide and 2,5m deep. The bailey adjouned the motte on the eastern side and was sub rectangular in shape, 58m by 36m. Overlying the bailey ditch on the south western side where it joins the motte is a latter pond. It is possible that the castle was built soon after the Norman conquest, fragments of pottery recovered during excavations show that it was occupied during the first half of the 12th century. It may be one of the unlicensed castles built during the civil war between Stephen and Maud. (PastScape)
Excavations 1987 (Ashwin) showed bailey on east with underlying Late Saxon occupation, within larger rectangular enclosure first noted by R.R. Clarke, perhaps prehistoric or Iron Age. (Norfolk HER)
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 | TF660164 |
| Latitude | 52.7200813293457 |
| Longitude | 0.457599997520447 |
| Eastings | 566070 |
| Northings | 316430 |
