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Locking Castle, Carberry Hill
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Locking Head Farm
In the civil parish of Locking.
In the historic county of Somerset (Modern Authority of North Somerset, 1974 county of Avon).
Earthworks of a motte and bailey on Carberry Hill. Excavations in 1902-3 located a small drystone chamber with a flight of steps in one corner. Finds recovered included pottery, coin and part of a sword. The motte and bailey was surveyed by Avon County Council in 1981. To the east of the castle was a very deep holloway, which predated the castle and formed the east boundary of the bailey. The west side was bounded by a 1.5m high bank with a slight external ditch which probably continued round the motte. The motte is situated to the southern end of the bailey and was only 2m high with a terrace half way, the upper part was presumably the remains of the building excavated in 1902-3. There is a local tradition that there was a windmill on the motte.
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 ST36386087
PastScape number;
192672
Books
- Prior, Stuart, 2006, A Few Well-Positioned Castles: The Norman Art of War (Tempus) p68-109
Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of Wessex (Malvern) p78
Dunning, Robert, 1995, Somerset Castles (Somerset Books) p40
Aston, M., Iles, R. (eds), 1989, The Archaeology of Avon p123-4
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p443
Renn, D.F., 1973 (2edn), Norman Castles of Britain (John Baker)
Burrow, Edward J., 1924, Ancient Earthworks and Camps of Somerset (Cheltenham and London) p120
Bothamley, 1911, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Somerset Vol2 p514-15
Journal Articles
- 1982, Bristol and Avon Archaeology Bristol and Avon Archaeological Society Vol1 p53-54
1904, Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, Bath Vol49 p186-7
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