Conclusion
No list
of castles in England can ever be complete, because there will never
be complete agreement in every case as to whether the remains of a
building are those of a castle, whether a given place is the site of
a castle, or whether a surviving building should be considered to be
a castle.
Perhaps
because the castle has become the most familiar type of
fortification, there are a great many sites in England of
fortifications earlier than the 10th century which have become known
as castles. Most of these are Iron
Age hill
forts:
amongst the best known are Abbotsbury
Castle, Barbury
Castle, Bratton
Castle, Cadbury
Castle, Castle
Dore, Chûn
Castle, Liddington
Castle, Maen
Castle, Maiden
Castle and Uffington
Castle, whilst
many more appear in the List
of hill forts in England.
Others, such as Melandra
Castle, Reculver
Castle, Richborough
Castle and Whitley
Castle,
are Roman
forts,
whilst Daw's
Castle is
a Saxon burh. None
of these is included in the present list unless it is also the site
of a medieval castle, as is the case with, for instance, Portchester
Castle,
where an imposing castle was built within the surviving walls of the
Roman fort
List of work consulted
www.castles.org
www.castles-of-britain.com
www.castlesofengland.com
www.heartofeurope.com
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