Motte and bailey. Excavations in 1912 found it consisted mainly of sandstone rubble and burnt earth with some 14th and 17th century potsherds. Documentary sources suggest a date for the motte of circa 1307. There is a field N. of the village of Hartfield called “the Castle Field,” the unevenness of whose surface, together with […]

Site of a medieval moated manor house. The moat and an early 14th century gatehouse are the only survivals from this period. The gatehouse is stone-built and comprises a carriage arch with a room above and a porter’s lodge to the rear. The house which currently occupies the moated island dates from the 16th century […]

At Crowhurst are the remains of a once defensible manor house, dating from 1251, which is believed to have been built, or at least owned, by the same Walter de Scotney who was executed in 1259 for his complicity in the attempt to poison Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and others at a banquet. […]

Site of a castle of motte and bailey type. The Earl of Sussex built the castle shortly after the Conquest to overawe the township and Rape of Chichester in the North of the Roman military settlement. It then passed to the Earls of Arundel. In 1217 ithe King ordered its destruction. The site then came […]