Mexborough Castle Hill

In the civil parish of Mexborough.
In the historic county of Yorkshire West Riding (Modern Authority of Doncaster, 1974 county of South Yorkshire).

Medieval motte and bailey castle, damaged by landscape gardening. The truncated motte is 52ft high above the ditch and the bailey is surrounded by a bank 6ft in height. The ditch surrounding the motte and bailey is 50ft wide. Although mutilated most of these features were present during field investigation in 1965.

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 SK484999

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 316463

Web site links

http://www.castleuk.net/castle_lists_north/111/mexboroughcastle.htm

Books

Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern) p60
Ingham, Bernard, 2001, Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles (Dalesman) p20
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p310 [slight]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p521
Illingworth, J.L., 1938 (republished 1970), Yorkshire's Ruined Castles (Wakefield)
Armitage and Montgomerie, 1912, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Yorkshire Vol2 p31, 33
Allcroft, A. Hadrian, 1908, Earthwork of England (London) p406, 408

Journal Articles

Birch, J., 1980, 'The castles and fortified houses of South Yorkshire' Archaeological Journal Vol137 p374-6
Addy, S.O., 1914-18, Hunter Archaeological Society Transactions Vol1 p359-61 and plate
Chalkley Gould, 1904, Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol10 p38-9
clark, G.T., 1874, The Builder Vol32 p585-7

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