Abinger Castle
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Abinger Castle was sited at Abinger Common, between Guildford and Dorking in Surrey (grid reference TQ114460). It was built as a motte and bailey castle around 1100[1] and founded by William fitz Ansculf.[2] It was built of wood and remodelled in 1140. It had a longer life than most castles of this type, surviving until 1153.[3] It was excavated by Dr Brian Hope-Taylor in 1949 when the sites of many of the postholes were found.[1] The mound remains.[2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Fry, Plantagenet Somerset (1980). The David & Charles Book of Castles. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 176. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3.
- ^ a b "Abinger Motte". CastleUK.Net. http://www.castleuk.net/castle_lists_south/187/abingermotte.html. Retrieved 2007-11-27.
- ^ Johnson, Paul (1989). Castles of England, Scotland and Wales. London: Weidenfield and Nicolson. p. 13. ISBN 0-297-83162-3.
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