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Killerby Castle Hills
In the civil parish of Catterick.
In the historic county of Yorkshire North Riding (Modern Authority of North Yorkshire, 1974 county of North Yorkshire).
Medieval motte and bailey castle, surviving as an earthwork. The average height of the motte is 3.5m, and its circumscribing ditch attains a maximum depth of 1.6m. The bailey lies to the south, with an outer ward further south. The castle was probably built 1120-25 but this may have been a remodelling of a pre-Conquest defensive site. Roman remains were found during an excavation of the site. Until 1994 an RAF airfield covered the site). The RAF use of the site involved the building of a gun emplacement on the south part of the castle but it is still well preserved.
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 SE25459707
PastScape number;
52302
Books
- Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern) p50
Jackson, M.J., 2001, Castles of North Yorkshire (Carlise) p9 [plan]
Ingham, Bernard, 2001, Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles (Dalesman) p18, 19-20 [listed twice]
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p301 [slight]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p519
Pevsner, N., 1966. The Buildings of England: Yorkshire, North Riding (London) p214
Illingworth, J.L., 1938 (republished 1970), Yorkshire's Ruined Castles (Wakefield)
Armitage and Montgomerie, 1912, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Yorkshire Vol2 p30, 32
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Speight, H., 1897, Romantic Richmondshire p147-8
Journal Articles
- I'Anson, W.M., 1913, 'The castles of the North Riding' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol22 p359-60 [plan]
MacLauchlan, H., 1849, Archaeological Journal Vol6 p348
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