Photo Eric Dewhurst

All that remains of the first Norman castle, Old Buckenham Castle, are the remains of the earthworks and some traces of a stone curtain wall.

In 1145 a new castle was built two miles to the south east at New Buckenham. The foundations of the circular stone shell keep, 60 feet in diameter, the moat and the earth ramparts are all that is left after the demolition in 1649 ordered by Parliament after the end of the Civil War.