Alstoe Mount, Burley, Rutland

G. C. Dunning

doi:10.1017/S0003581500084237

Alstoe Mount, Burley, Rutland

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012

G. C. Dunning

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Alstoe Mount is a fine example of a motte and bailey castle, situated 1 mile north-east of Burley village and 3 miles north-east of Oakham; it is on the east side of the road from Burley to Cottesmore, and immediately north-west of Alstoe House (fig. 1). The mount is on the level summit of the long ridge running northwards into Lincolnshire, at a height of 490 ft. O.D., and is about 150 ft. above the vale of Catmose. Towards the south the high ground terminates in a spur running to Burley, and possibly the mount was placed to safeguard the passage of traffic from this direction, near the point where it branched, either south-east to Stamford or northwards to Lincoln.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , October 1936 , pp. 396 - 411

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581500084237 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1936

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^{page 395 note 1} 6 in. O.S. Rutland, sheet V, SE.

^{page 397 note 1} V.C.H. Rutland, i, 112.

^{page 397 note 2} Department of Maps, no. 38841.

^{page 398 note 1} Archaeological Journ. lxx, 83.

^{page 402 note 1} V.C.H. Rutland, ii, 107.

^{page 402 note 2} Ibid, i, 131-2.

^{page 402 note 3} Ibid, i, 112.

^{page 402 note 4} Ibid, ii, 112.

^{page 404 note 1} Archaeologia, lxxxiii, 109.

^{page 404 note 2} Antiq. Journ. xi, 256.

^{page 404 note 3} Ibid, xv, 185.

^{page 406 note 1} Proc. Cambridge Antiq. Soc. xxxiii, 137 ft.

^{page 408 note 1} Proc. Cambridge Antiq. Soc. xxxv, 97 ff.

^{page 408 note 2} Antiq. Journ. xi, figs. 6-7.

^{page 408 note 3} Wilts. Arch. Mag. xlvi, 261.

^{page 410 note 1} Sussex Arch. Coll. lxxvi, 167.

^{page 410 note 2} Armitage, E. S., Early Norman Castles, p. 216Google Scholar.

^{page 411 note 1} Reliquary, xv, 207.

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