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This digital elevation model shows the motte just left of centre, with the bailey to the right (north-east) of it. [1] A motte-and-bailey is a form of castle, with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised earthwork called a motte, accompanied by an enclosed courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade.
The rural motte-and-bailey castles followed the traditional design, but the urban castles often lacked the traditional baileys, using parts of the town to fulfil this role instead. [73] Motte-and-bailey castles in Flanders were particularly numerous in the south along the Lower Rhine, a fiercely contested border. [74]
This is a list of castles from around the world. By country ... List of Crusader castles; List of motte-and-bailey castles; ... Map of Castles and Fortifications of ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... List of motte-and-bailey castles; Motte-and-bailey castle; A. Château d'Albon; Allesley ...
A bailey or ward in a fortification is a leveled courtyard, typically enclosed by a curtain wall. In particular, a medieval type of European castle is known as a motte-and-bailey. Castles and fortifications may have more than one bailey, and the enclosure wall building material may have been at first in wood, and later transitioned to stone ...
List of motte castles in Belgium Province Location Town Name Heritage Coordinates Image Antwerp: Bornem: Bornem: Den Dulft: 106091: Antwerp: Brecht: Brecht: Waterhoeve
Eye Castle is a motte and bailey castle, built during the reign of William I by William Malet, who died fighting Hereward the Wake in 1071. [1] The Malet family also controlled the surrounding Honour of Eye, a significant collection of estates centring on the castle, and the park of Eye. [2]
Middleton Mount was a motte and bailey castle built during the Norman period. [1] The motte is 49 m in diameter, protected by an 11 m wide ditch. [2] The castle's crescent-shaped bailey and three rectangular enclosures of uncertain medieval date lay alongside the motte. [2]