Aughton Castle Hill

In the civil parish of Ellerton. In the historic county of Yorkshire East Riding (Modern Authority of East Riding of Yorkshire, 1974 county of Humberside).

Medieval complex including a motte and bailey castle, additional earthen banks and ditches, fishponds, and a moated site situated immediately east of the castle bailey,surviving as earthworks. The motte is 35m in diameter and rises above an earthen platform 50m north to south by 35m east to west, defined by a moat up to 10m wide and 2m deep. The bailey lies immediately to the south est of the motte and its platform and measures 90m square north to south and east to west, and is defined by a dry moat up to 2m deep and between 10 and 15m wide. The moated site lies 250m east of All Saints' church and includes a sub rectangular island about 40m square, defined by a moat. A modern fishpond lies to the east of the moated site. A Ha Ha is also present. This layout is illustrated in Jean Le Patourel p18 and explained as a moated house built beside and partly within the bailey of the castle.

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 SE70173869

PastScape Defra ELS number; 59430

Books

Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern) p16
Ingham, Bernard, 2001, Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles (Dalesman) p16
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p513
Loughlin, Neil and Miller, Keith, 1979, A survey of archaeological sites in Humberside carried out for the Humberside Joint Archaeological Committee p41
Le Patourel, H.E. Jean, 1973, The Moated Sites of Yorkshire (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series 5) p17-18, 109
Illingworth, J.L., 1938 (republished 1970), Yorkshire's Ruined Castles (Wakefield) p124
Armitage and Montgomerie, 1912, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Yorkshire Vol2 p25

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Aughton Castle Hill

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SE70173869

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