Thursday 23 November 2017

Mountfitchet Castle with the Norman Village

This historic castle enables us to travel back in time to 1066 Norman England. I loved to travel visiting this place. I met this place as wonderful place for children and all family who can explore the life in 1066 Norman England. Sometimes I felt like I'm in the fable. 

Mountfitchet Castle is a unique time capsule.
Formerly an Iron Age hill fort, this historic site was also a Roman signals fort and later a Saxon and Viking settlement before being attacked in 1066 by William the Conqueror who built a wooden Motte and Bailey castle here.
Mountfitchet Castle was also briefly used by the Royalist Army to King Charles in the English Civil War (17th C). The Royalist forces held out at the castle when they were laid Siege to by Cromwell.



Mountfitchet Castle is a national Historic Monument, protected by the Department of the Environment.
It is believed to have been an early Iron Age fort and Roman, Saxon and Viking settlement. Artefacts found on the site from these periods support this belief.
In 1066 the site was attacked by the Normans and Robert Gernon, the Duke of Boulogne, built his castle here, making it his chief seat and the head of his Barony. There is some evidence that Robert Gernon was a close relative of William the Conqueror.
more;  http://www.mountfitchetcastle.com/home/castle-history






 


























 




 














































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