The Bourne Archive Gallery

Figure 13. Bourne Castle. View from the middle bailey, across the inner bailey moat and the inner bailey to the innermost moat and the motte. The path across the picture is modern but the causeway retaining the small patch of water just beyond it is a late or early post-medieval causeway leading form the late thirteenth century gate which stood a little to the left of a line between the staked sapling and the tree behind it. The puddle in the depression representing the innermost moat shows the curve of the motte while a remnant of the latter remains as a bank. The tree in the centre of the picture stands on the revetment of the motte. The far edge of the grass in the left half of the picture is slightly raised and lies over the spread pisé core of the inner bailey curtain wall.

(Picture date late 2002)