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Castle Toll, Newenden
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Eorpeburnan
In the civil parish of Newenden.
In the historic county of Kent (Modern Authority of Kent, 1974 county of Kent).
Earthworks occupy the end of a peninsula jutting into Romney Marsh and are of two distinct phases. The entire end of the peninsula appear to have been enclosed with defences more pronounced to the west accross the landward approach. Excavation has shown that the works were unfinished; they are now badly damaged by ploughing. There is a strong possibility that this is the unfinished Eorpeburnan of the Burghal Hidage and mentioned in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle 892 as having been attacked by the Danes. Within the large enclosure is Castle Toll, sub rectangular in plan with a motte like mound. Excavation showed that this had two phases of construction; early and mid C13.
This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Earthworks remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ85172840
PastScape number;
417477
Books
- Salter, Mike, 2000, The Castles of Kent (Malvern) p56
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p133 [slight]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p232
Guy, John, 1980, Kent Castles (Meresborough Books)
Smithers, David Waldron, 1980, Castles in Kent (Chatham)
Chalkley Gould and Downham, 1908, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Kent Vol1 p442-3
Allcroft, A. Hadrian, 1908, Earthwork of England (London) p419 [misleading]
Sands, Harold, 1907, 'Some Kentish Castles' in Ditchfield and Clinch, Memorials of Old Kent (London) p40-4
Holloway, 1849, History of Romney Marsh (London) p36-9 and fortispiece
Hasted, Edward, 1778-99, A History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent Vol3 p80 [a bare mention]
Journal Articles
- Davison, B.K., 1972, 'The Burhal Hidage for tof Eorpeburnan: a suggested identification' Medieval Archaeology Vol16 p123-7
(Davison), 1966, Medieval Archaeology Vol10 p191
Davison, B.K., 1965, 'Report for 1965’, Archaeologia Cantiana Vol80 p.liii
Smith, C.R., 1880, 'Newenden, Not Anderida’, Archaeologia Cantiana Vol13 p488-91
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