Motte
12^thC

Castellarium Anglicanum : Fine large ring-work on steep foreland ; counter-scarp bank on part of perimeter.

Motte/Pele

de Brus : Or, a saltire with a chief gules

Castellarium Anglicanum : small, strong projection from hillside. Remains of a massive bank on the exposed side, and of counter-scarp banks. This seems to have been a partial ring-work, but is much damaged. Alleged to have had strong masonry defences. Predecessor to DANBY, and called by the name of 'Danby' in early times. Mentioned in 1242, 'a ruined peel' in 1336.

Motte

Fitz Alan, Conyers
FitzAlan : Gules, a lion rampant or.

Leland says that Killerby was a ruin "in ripa citer" situated about 3 miles beneth Keterik Bridge where it longid to the Conyeux.

Called locally Castle Hills, the motte is badly eroded though the bailey is still fairly well preserved, the ditch being 80ft wide in places. No masonry had been found which points to a timber built structure. which overlooking the ford of the Swale as it does, indicates that its function was to either protect the ford or the tolls that would have been charged for the use of the ford. Part of Alan the Red's demesne manors after the Conquest, it was shortly after given to one Scolland, steward to Alan. The estate passed through marriage to Sir Brian Fitz Alan who built the stone castle during the reign of Edward I a few hundred yard away from the site of the motte and bailey which was then redundant.

Castellarium Anglicanum : Motte ; the churchyard appears to occupy it's bailey.

Motte & Bailey
11th C
Crown

Moated Manor

Sir William Beckwith

Hamelin Plantagenet, Crown
H.P.:Seme of France, a bordure England-then later-Chequy, or and azure.

Leland states : The castle standeth on a rocket of stone and ditched. The walls of it are strong and full of towers.

Castellarium Anglicanum : Foreland position with two wards, the inner being in fact an enormous motte, with counter-scarp bank. This carries a great round buttressed keep on the line of a ward with small round solid turrets. All late 12^th century. 1174~8. Little history, but worth repairing as late as 1482~3.

Motte
11th C

Fitz Hervey
FitzHervey:see FitzHugh

Castellarium Anglicanum : Remains of masonry on a motte. Probably founded 11^th century, licensed 1201.

Fortified Manor
11th C

de Stutville, Wake
de Stuteville:Barruly [of 10 or 12], argent and gules :
Wake:Or, two bars gules, in chief three torteau

Leland states : Entering into the south part of the great uplandish town of Cottingham, I saw where Stuteville's castle, double dyked and moated, stood of which nothing now remaineth.

The castle at Cottingham, just north of Hull, is first recorded in 1170. There are indications that the site might have originally have been a motte and bailey which was reconstructed as a twin moated rectangular enclosure. At the time of the Conquest,

Le patourel : A2(d) Baynard Castle, with fish ponds, destroyed. Moat by 1276. In 1282, capital messuage described as 'well constructed, with double moats enclosed by a wall, and fish in moat valued at 66s 8d a year' License to crenellate 1307.

Castellarium Anglicanum : Double moated enclosure, Stephen, licensed in 1201 - and - 1327.

Motte & Bailey later Pele Tower
15th C

Neville Gules a saltire argent, with due difference.
Bishopric of Durham:Azure, a cross or between four lions rampant argent

Leland states : ... the castle of Crek (Crayke) given by king Ecbright to Saint Cuthbert. There remaineth at this time small show of any old castle that hath been there. There is an hall with other offices and a great stable vaulted with stone of a meatly ancient building. The great square tower that is thereby, as in the top of the hill, and supplement of lodgings, is very fair and was erected totally by Neville Bishop of Durham.

Castellarium Anglicanum : Hill-top site, remains of motte and bailey - 1217 - Two rather disconnected 15^th century towers remain.

Motte and Bailey

Crown, de Stuteville
de Stuteville:Barruly [of 10 or 12], argent and gules

Like Cottingham this was a de Stuteville castle which passed to the Wakes. In the early 1290's John Lord Wake had built a half timbered manor house within the bailey. The modern chapel of ease stand on the site of Robert de Stuteville's castle chapel.

Castellarium Anglicanum : Motte and bailey, both now ill-marked, a later hall in the bailey. Mentioned in 1334.

Moated Manor
Beaumont

Pele Tower

Castellarium Anglicanum : Tower built up in later house

Courtyard Castle
14th C

de Brus, Thweng, Latimer, Nevill
de Brus:Or, a saltire with a chief gules
Thweng:Or, a fess gules. :
Latimer:Gules, a cross pate or :
Nevill:Gules, a saltire argent charged with a ring sable

Castellarium Anglicanum : A small and compact Northern quadrangular castle, with angle towers projecting diagonally. Neither well sited nor strong. Late 14^th century, successor to Castleton, which is the Danby of early references.

Probable fortified manorial house

Probable fortified courtyard house 15^thC

Castle 

Leland states : the faire and large parish church of St George, standing in the very area where once the castle of the town stood long since clean decayed. The dykes partly yet be seen and the foundations of parts of the walls. 

Town Walls

1300 : Mss. From Hugh de Belton and Helen his wife, to the lord Peter de Maulay III the lord of Doncaster one messuage, &c. situate in Francis Street, Doncastre which extends itself from the kings highway of the town, even to the ditch, trench, or moat which goes about the town of Doncastre.'

Fortified Manor

Adulterine
12^thC

Philip de Tallevilla

Motte
12th C

The site of Moot Hill in Driffield according to archaeology sides beneath it evidence of 4th century Romano-British occupation. The Norman Motte on the site might therefore have utilised an already existing mound and enlarged it. By the time of Domesday. Driffield belonged to the king and was valued as worthless. Excavations carried out in 1975 revealed a Norman castle with several phases of bridge building across the motte ditch. There might be evidence for a building date of the castle of 1071, about the time of Mortcar's rebellion. The castle was then abandoned for some time then re-fortified in the 13th century. Earlier excavations have revealed Saxon relics also indicating that the site was of some import for many centuries.

Castellarium Anglicanum : Motte and bailey, much mutilated, mentioned Stephen, and again John

Enclosure

Castellarium Anglicanum : partial ring-work, horse-shoe shaped, the straight side being against a formidable slope.

Tower
15th C

Castellarium Anglicanum : 15^th century tower with modern house added.

Pele Tower
14th C

de Ayton : Barry of six or and azure, a canton gules charged with a cross paty argent

Manor House

Tower
14th C

Godfery de Alteripa

License to crenellate was granted 1308.

Text compiled and edited by Richard Hayton

Heraldry rendered by Richard Hayton