More information : (SO 36606727) Lingen Castle (NR) (Remains of). (1)
"Mount and bailey earthwork, immediately N of the church, consists of a roughly circular motte with a bailey on the W side. The motte is about 63ft in diameter at the top and rises about 22ft above the bottom of the dry ditch. The bailey is roughly square in shape and has remains of an inner rampart and traces of a ditch on the S and W. Condition bad - motte much damaged on S side". (2)
Pubished survey (25") revised. As described. (3)
(SO 36606727) Motte & Bailey (NR). (4)
Lingen. Motte and bailey of angular plan, another bailey on other side of motte. Neither bailey is at all strong. (5)
Additional references. (6-7)
The motte and bailey are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs, and have been mapped by RCHME's Marches Uplands Mapping Project. (8-10) |