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Submitted by vicky on Thursday, 25 March 2004  Page Views: 14183

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Caus Castle
Country: England County: Shropshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Welshpool  Nearest Village: Lower Wallop
Map Ref: SJ337078  Landranger Map Number: 126
Latitude: 52.663844N  Longitude: 2.981747W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
2 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
3

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Caus Castle submitted by TheWhiteRider : The most Northern part of the bailey bank. (Vote or comment on this photo)
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Caus Castle
Caus Castle submitted by TimPrevett : Caus Castle at evening twilight 22/09/06. Mediaeval fortification upon an Iron Age hillfort. Access is not easy, even though a footpath runs through the east side of the monument, and somewhere to park to leave the car completely escaped me! (Vote or comment on this photo)

Caus Castle
Caus Castle submitted by TheWhiteRider : Another shot from the road of the SW end of the earthworks. The motte is some way inside the woods. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Caus Castle
Caus Castle submitted by TheWhiteRider : A shot from the road of the Western bailey earthworks. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Caus Castle
Caus Castle submitted by TheWhiteRider : Earthworks within the bailey. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Caus Castle
Caus Castle submitted by TheWhiteRider : Part of the NE bank. Taken whilst struggling to locate the footpath, this must have been part of the post-Norman conquest bailey, but is it also part of the Iron Age fort?

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Re: Caus Castle by Aerial-Cam on Wednesday, 16 January 2019
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Caus Castle, Shropshire.
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Earthwork, geophysical and photogrammetric survey at Caus Castle, Shropshire by Andy B on Friday, 28 July 2017
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Dr. Peter Purton writes: Larger castles have been well studied. Lesser ones have not. There are probably at least a thousand earthworks in what was then England, most of which have never been excavated, never dated, their function only guessed at. Many are called “mottes” with no more evidence than that they look like one. The old certainty that all Norman castles were originally of motte and bailey design has been replaced with awareness that the recognisable conical mound forming the motte was sometimes added later to a simpler enclosure defined by a ditch, rampart and palisade. The bailey too is proving more complex: why did some castles have two (or more), why are some so vast? Some now seem to have enclosed whole villages, others are too cramped for any but the smallest buildings. The CST-funded project at Caus (Shropshire) tackles this question.

950 years after William began the conquest of England, we are asking questions about Norman castles based not on old prejudices about what castles were, but on historical and archaeological study based in a better understanding of the reality of eleventh and twelfth century societies.

Earthwork, geophysical and photogrammetric survey at Caus Castle, Shropshire

The site, a large motte-and-bailey structure with some sections of upstanding masonry, has been frequently referenced previously but has never actually been subject to any form of detailed archaeological research. The focus of the proposed project is the outer bailey of Roger fitz Corbet, the ramparts of which enclose the medieval borough. The borough of Caus is well attested to in documentary sources, from the granting of a market charter in 1200 to its decline in the 16th century. The physical archaeology of the site is much less known.

A three-pronged approach is used: earthwork survey, geophysical survey, and photogrammetic survey. The project is led by Michael Fradley, and the results will be archived with the Shropshire HER and submitted to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society.

Some of the project questions cannot be conclusively answered, in particular as to whether the outer enclosure originated as an Iron-Age hillfort, although several new observations have been made on the subject.

http://castlestudiestrust.org/Caus-Castle.html

Earthwork, geophysical and photogrammetric survey funded by the Castle Studies Trust.
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ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE SURVEY, CAUS CASTLE, WESTBURY, SHROPSHIRE (2MB PDF)
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ARCHAEO-TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY CAUS CASTLE, WESTBURY SHROPSHIRE, A preliminary report (3.2MB PDF)
http://castlestudiestrust.org/docs/ESA-8179.pdf
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Re: Caus Castle by Anonymous on Sunday, 25 March 2007
Have been visiting Corbet sites since I saw the Ghost of Vincent Corbet Last summer in moreton corbet church, my lady freind heard him, I saw him, as alive now as he was then and just as arrogant! Broad daylight I should add. Caus comes from the french Caux, in northern france, as do the norman Corbets.
Since seeing him I seem to bump into that name everywhere I go, especially in france. Corbet comes from the french word for Raven and is still a word used today. A fascinating family with a fascinating Viking history.
Keryl Holt, a descendant of Simon del Holt, Knight Templar 1165.
0770 7345376. Have no problems with txts. Cant get at my email since virgin got their hands on telewest ha ha
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Re: Caus Castle by Anonymous on Monday, 11 December 2006
I am interested because I am a Corbett, and this castle is my ancestral home. It also appears to be the capital of a small but thriving micronation - the Sovereign Barony of Caux (http://www.baronyofcaux.com).

Anyone with information on who the owners are, or where permission to visit might be obtained, is asked to email john@corbettcommunications.com

Thanks,

John Corbett
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Re: Caus Castle by Anonymous on Tuesday, 24 October 2006
Interested in this site since it is mentioned as the place where Llewellyn ab Iowerth's mother lived with her second husband, Robert Corbet - Sharon Penman's And Here be Dragons. He left them at the age of fourteen to go back to claim his inheritance in Gwynedd.
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Re: Caus Castle by TimPrevett on Saturday, 23 September 2006
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I would be very interested to know where you parked! Attempted a visit yesterevening, but had to content myself with a view from the west, from drive. The sign did say "no access without permission" - but would one get permission if asking?
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    Re: Caus Castle by brickmaker on Tuesday, 03 October 2006
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    When I visited Caus in 2001, I passed through Westbury, took the right hand road, following the castle (on the left) until you come to a very tiny gate entrance where there is a footpath sign, and parked there (on the left).

    Caus is a fantastic site and yes, you have to veer off the footpath to experience the evening view from it.

    There is a little of the outer bailey gate visible and the path goes up through this and round to the right, into the main part of the woodland. The deep dry moat cut out of the rock here is very impressive. But not more so than a steep climb up into the inner bailey where you will find yourself surrounded by the visible foundations of the great hall and possible round tower, a well (fenced off) and then a steep climb up the motte to the top will reveal the quite substantial remains of the stone tower.

    The locals ignore the footpath signs, appreciate they will be sharing the site with sheep or cattle and use it for weekend walks and summer picnics. However, I would stress that the private signs are respected and that the only other choice would be to park in Westbury and stomach the walk to Caus!
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    Re: Caus Castle by TheWhiteRider on Sunday, 15 October 2006
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    I parked in the same place as described in the other reply to your post. Not a proper parking place as such, but enough room for a car not to get in the way.
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Re: Caus Castle by TheWhiteRider on Saturday, 30 July 2005
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Visited the site today and was disappointed to find only very limited access. The footpath does take you through part of the bailey, and only because we got a bit lost did we see a little more of it than we should. At the SW end there was a private property sign. Seems a pity that such an important Shropshire location, occupied since the Iron Age, should only be visited by cattle and sheep. The sheer scale of the earthworks is unmissable and only served to tantalise our interest further. Clearly a very exciting and interesting site, but pity about the lack of access.
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Re: Caus Castle by TheWhiteRider on Saturday, 30 July 2005
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