The Gatehouse website record for Bincknoll Castle, Broad Hinton

In the civil parish of Broad Hinton. In the historic county of Wiltshire (Modern Authority of Wiltshire, 1974 county of Wiltshire).

Enigmatic earthworks, previously identified as a motte and bailey castle with evidence of a settlement within the outer bailey. Now considered to be more probably of Iron Age origin, though with medieval and/or later elements. The 'motte', severely mutilated by quarrying, measures 52 metres in diameter by 3.2 metres high, and its ditch is 2.3 metres deep. The inner enclosure has a bank and ditch 3.4 metres high dividing it from the outer enclosure, with a causeway entrance. There is evidence of settlement, agricultural activity and later quarrying within the bailey. (PastScape)
Bicknoll Castle lay at the centre of five contiguous estates of Gilbert de Breteuil at Domesday, and was probably the chief caput. (PastScape–ref. Creighton)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SU10757921

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 221351
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is SU17NW450 '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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