The Bourne Archive Gallery

Figure 8. Bourne Castle. View from the remnant of the motte. The green under the bushes is over the inner bailey moat where it begins to widen into the defensive lake. The parch marks are of the late thirteenth century features, the stone inner bailey curtain wall, the fore-building and the motte revetment. The pale strip beyond the tree on the right is a modern path but the slightly nearer parch mark which this photo makes to look parallel with it is the late or post-medieval causeway leading from the gatehouse across the narrowed inner bailey moat. At the end of the causeway, the inner bailey gatehouse, reported by Trollope, is immediately beyond the tree to the right.

(Picture date September 1991)