Castle Neroche
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Location of Castle Neroche
Castle Neroche is a Norman motte-and-bailey castle on the site of an earlier hill fort near Staple Fitzpaine, Somerset, England. The hill rises to 260 m on the northern escarpment of the Blackdown Hills. The castle was probably built by Robert of Mortain in the 11th century and probably went out of use in the 12th.[1]
The site was excavated by Mr. H. St. George Hay in 1903. There have also been nearby archaeological finds of Mesolithic flints, and a Bronze Age copper axe found in 1857, but nothing from the Iron Age or Roman periods.
[edit] References
- ^ Adkins, Lesley and Roy (1992). A field Guide to Somerset Archeology. Stanbridge: Dovecote press. ISBN 0946159947.
- Somerset Historic Environment Record:
- Castle Neroche (record no. 43844)
- Copper Axe (record no. 43565)
- Mesolithic flints (record no. 55598)
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