A motte [tump on the Welsh border, tomen in Wales itself] is a very early post-conquest Norman earthwork, usually a mound of simple geometric shape such as a truncated cone because they were put up in a hurry. Next touching or surrounding or surrounding a mound was an enclosure, the motte and bailey. Then yer actual castles came. Mottes sometimes mistaken for long barrows and if a ringwork for summat pre'istoric.
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