The Gatehouse website record for Easby Castle Hill

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Easby near Stokesley; Borough Green

In the civil parish of Easby. In the historic county of Yorkshire North Riding (Modern Authority of North Yorkshire, 1974 county of North Yorkshire).

Easby Castle Motte is a horseshoe shaped mound, 45m across, being 2.5m high on the north side but less than 2m high at the edge of the bluff. The top of the motte is slightly hollowed as a result of excavations by Howell in 1903. The south edge of the Motte is formed by the pecipitous natural scarp but elsewhere a 5m wide ditch surrounds it. This has silted to the north but is 1m deep where it runs to the edge of the bluff. The castle had timber defences and may have served as a remote watch tower or temporary refuge during the civil wars of C12. There is no evidence for a bailey.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ58980848

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 27345
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is MNY24414 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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