Brampton Motte

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; The Mote

In the civil parish of Brampton.
In the historic county of Cumberland (Modern Authority of Cumbria, 1974 county of Cumbria).

C12/C13 motte. It is cut out of the higher end of a long ridge and consists of an oval-shaped summit plateau measuring c36m by 18m; 12m downslope there is an encircling ditch c5m wide and up to 3m deep; used as a beacon in 1468. Surmounted by a statue of 1870.

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 NY53326127

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 12735

Books

Salter, Mike, 1998, The Castles and Tower Houses of Cumbria (Malvern) p21
Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (CWAAS) p137
Jackson, M.J.,1990, Castles of Cumbria (Carel Press) p33-4
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p83
Pevsner, N., 1967, The Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland (Harmondsworth, Penguin) p76 [rather misleading]
Curwen, J.F., 1913, Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the Sands (Kendal) p39

Journal Articles

1905, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol5 p290

Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/cumbeng.html#cumb27]

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