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The Bourne Archive Gallery
© 2006 R.J.PENHEY (Picture date September 1991)
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 C13 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. The green foreground is the site of
the motte, originally of ca. 1140 but modified in the late C13.
The similar motte revetment,
surmounted by a shell keep and from the same period as the Bourne one, may
still be seen at Farnham, in Surrey. photograph.
