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Hallaton Castle motte and earthworks
Hallaton Museum

Hallaton Castle is a Scheduled Monument 0.5 kilometres (0.3 mi) west of the village of Hallaton in Leicestershire. The motte and bailey castle, “the finest example of its type in Leicestershire”, and described in the Domesday Book of 1086, was probably the administrative centre of an estate owned by Geoffrey Alselin.[1]

Only the earthworks, comprising a ditched motte and an adjoining bailey enclosure to the northwest have survived. The conical motte is about 50 metres (164 ft) in diameter and 7.5 metres (24.6 ft) deep. Its encircling motte ditch is up to 3 metres (10 ft) deep and 8 metres (26 ft) wide. The horseshoe-shaped bailey encloses an area of about 60 × 30 metres, bounded by a ditch up to 2 metres (7 ft) deep and 5 metres (16 ft) wide.[1]

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