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HHER Number:67
Type of record:Monument
Name:MOTTE AND BAILEY, TUTHILL, THERFIELD

Summary

Earthwork castle

Grid Reference:TL 333 371
Map Sheet:TL33NW
Parish:Therfield, North Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire
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Monument Types

  • FISHPOND (?, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1500 AD)
  • MOTTE AND BAILEY (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1500 AD)

Protected Status

  • Area of Archaeological Significance 49
  • Scheduled Ancient Monument 20672: MOTTE AND BAILEY CASTLE AND ASSOCIATED EARTHWORKS 100M SOUTH OF TUTHILL FARM

Full description

A small mound approx. 14m in diameter and approx. 1.5m high, within a bailey defined by a ditch and slight bank to the S and SW, and containing further unidentified earthworks to the north. It is interpreted by its excavator as a mid 12th century adulterine castle, abandoned shortly afterwards <1>. An earlier, Saxo-Norman, occupation layer with pottery dating from 1050 to 1100 was excavated beneath the site of the castle <2>. A water-filled fishpond, 68m by 10m, lies directly south of the motte, and may be contemporary <2, 3>, although there are many small ponds here.


Mike Daniels (HCC), site report, 7.7.1982 (Unpublished document). SHT7000.


OS Records (Index). SHT8223.


Renn, Derek, 1971, Medieval castles in Hertfordshire, - p25 (Bibliographic reference). SHT9405.


Holt, Janet, 2006, What features and sites in the early landscape could have influenced the later siting of a Norman motte and bailey castle with medieval church in close proximity? (R1780), Photos (Unpublished document). SHT16872.


<1> Biddle, Martin, 1964, The excavation of a motte and bailey castle at Therfield, Herts; J British Archaeol Assoc 27, 53-91 (Article in serial). SHT5654.


<2> Scheduled Monument description (Scheduling record). SHT9990.

Sources and further reading

---Unpublished document: Holt, Janet. 2006. What features and sites in the early landscape could have influenced the later siting of a Norman motte and bailey castle with medieval church in close proximity? (R1780). Photos.
---Unpublished document: Mike Daniels (HCC), site report. 7.7.1982.
---Index: OS Records.
---Bibliographic reference: Renn, Derek. 1971. Medieval castles in Hertfordshire. - p25.
<1>Article in serial: Biddle, Martin. 1964. The excavation of a motte and bailey castle at Therfield, Herts; J British Archaeol Assoc 27, 53-91.
<2>Scheduling record: Scheduled Monument description.

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1659Related to: EARTHWORKS, THERFIELD (Monument)

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