Castle Bytham Village Defences

Has been described as a Certain Urban Defence

There are earthwork remains

NameCastle Bytham Village Defences
Alternative NamesBiham
Historic CountryLincolnshire
Modern AuthorityLincolnshire
1974 AuthorityLincolnshire
Civil ParishCastle Bytham

Castle Bytham: Signs of bank around village adjoining motte and bailey (Brown. pp. 76-7). (Bond 2001)

Gatehouse Comments

Outer bailey of Castle Bytham castle contained village. See castle for full bibliography.

- Philip Davis

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 ReferenceSK990185
Latitude52.7537117004395
Longitude-0.536700010299683
Eastings499070
Northings318590
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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