A ringwork is a form of fortified defensive structure, usually circular or oval in shape. Ringworks are essentially motte-and-bailey castles without the...

ringwork castle, involving a palisade being built on top of a raised earth rampart, protected by a ditch. The choice of motte and bailey or ringwork was...

Court ringwork is a small, well-preserved medieval fortification located in Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards, in Buckinghamshire, England. Ringworks are relatively...

Simpler defensive walls of earth or stone, thrown up around hillforts, ringworks, early castles and the like, tend to be referred to as ramparts or banks...

Mountfitchet Castle, also termed simply Mountfitchet Castle, is a Norman ringwork and bailey fortification in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England. The...

The Orensberg, also known in the region as the Orensfels(en) due to the striking rock formations on its summit plateau, is a hill, 581.2 m above sea level...

largest in Great Britain. The old parish church, St Mary's, and a small ringwork, almost certainly a medieval castle site probably contemporary with the...

It is surrounded by a stone-walled fort consisting of a blockhouse and ringwork. The blockhouse is a free-standing drystone gateway set just within the...

The ringwork on the Schießberg (German: Ringwall Schießberg) is a, now levelled, early medieval hillfort situated at a height of 422 m above sea level...

England. The first castle in Thetford, a probable 11th-century Norman ringwork called Red Castle, was replaced in the 12th century by a much larger motte...

Framlingham Castle Castle 1213 Mostly complete An early motte and bailey or ringwork Norman castle was built in 1148, then destroyed in the revolt of 1173–4...

of England as one of the new administrative areas. De Lacy built a huge ringwork castle defended by a stout double palisade and external ditch on top of...

through a natural spur westward into the Colne Valley in order to form a ringwork and inner bailey; an outer bailey extended south further into the valley...

Peel tower Portcullis Postern Powder tower Qalat Reduit Ribat Ricetto Ringwork Roundel Quadrangular castle Shell keep Shield wall Shiro Toll castle Tower...

independent defensive structures. These simple fortifications were called ringworks. The enceinte was the castle's main defensive enclosure, and the terms...

Peel tower Portcullis Postern Powder tower Qalat Reduit Ribat Ricetto Ringwork Roundel Quadrangular castle Shell keep Shield wall Shiro Toll castle Tower...

remains (earthworks) of Fordhall castle, a scheduled Norman ringwork-and-bailey castle. The ringwork was first noted as recently as 1950, although the name...

Archaeology Field School) to excavate and research the site. The site contains ringwork, burnt wooden structures, and a later stone castle. A town grew around...

the town are the earthwork remains of Woodhead Castle, a medieval moated ringwork with attached bailey. The parish church, dedicated to St Peter & St Paul...

church, is the earthwork remains of a Saxon and Norman ringwork castle. The northern part of the ringwork was excavated in 1960 and 1976. Evidence was found...

Rath Turtle Moat is a ringwork and National Monument located in County Wicklow, Ireland. Rath Turtle Moat is located in Glen Ding Wood, 1.6 km (0.99 mi)...

deep into the original motte. The effect is heightened by a surrounding ringwork, subsequently filled in on the inner side so as to appear to heap against...

Peel tower Portcullis Postern Powder tower Qalat Reduit Ribat Ricetto Ringwork Roundel Quadrangular castle Shell keep Shield wall Shiro Toll castle Tower...

Peel tower Portcullis Postern Powder tower Qalat Reduit Ribat Ricetto Ringwork Roundel Quadrangular castle Shell keep Shield wall Shiro Toll castle Tower...

Peel tower Portcullis Postern Powder tower Qalat Reduit Ribat Ricetto Ringwork Roundel Quadrangular castle Shell keep Shield wall Shiro Toll castle Tower...

Peel tower Portcullis Postern Powder tower Qalat Reduit Ribat Ricetto Ringwork Roundel Quadrangular castle Shell keep Shield wall Shiro Toll castle Tower...

General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1912. Alloway Mote – an old ringwork castle site "Home Page – Robert Burns Birthplace Museum". burnsmuseum.org...

England in the 1050s, the Normans began to build motte and bailey and ringwork castles in large numbers to control their newly occupied territories in...

Most castles took the form of earthwork and timber motte-and-bailey or ringwork constructs; easily built with local labour and resources, these were resilient...

additional protection. Beyond the gatehouse is the inner bailey, which forms a ringwork 73 metres (240 ft) by 60 metres (200 ft) in size, with a circumference...