England · Ruin
Clavering Castle
Clavering Castle is the earthwork remains of an early medieval ringwork and associated baileys on the southern bank of the River Stort at Clavering, Essex. Very little masonry survives above ground today and the site is represented by banks, ditches and a raised central mound near the parish church.
Its prime
1100
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 1100
The shape it held in its prime.
A low, roughly circular ringwork defined by an earthen bank and surrounding water-filled ditch or moat fed by a diverted bend of the River Stort; a raised central platform or mound occupies the interior where timber halls and outbuildings would stand behind a timber palisade. The approach is across a wide grass meadow from the south with dense trees to the north and west; the parish church sits close to the south edge of the site.
Its story
The story of Clavering Castle.
Clavering Castle survives as the earthworks of an early medieval ringwork and baileys on the southern bank of the River Stort, 50 metres north of the church of St Mary and St Clement in the Essex village of Clavering. The first known Lord of Clavering, recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, was Robert FitzWimarc — an image believed to be his appears on the Bayeux Tapestry, at Edward the Confessor's deathbed.
Very little masonry stands above ground; the site is read today in its banks, ditches and raised central mound. In 1923 a stone coffin weighing about a ton was discovered here, containing the well-preserved skeleton of a man believed to have been a Clavering lord.
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