Pleshey Castle Describe the Castle as it was in 1400 A.D. Today, there are very few remains of the once great Pleshey castle. However, the shape and basic outline of the castle can be worked out. A tall mound situated to one corner is obviously the motte, there are very little remains of the keep. This is surrounded by a large ditch which you can cross using the large brick bridge. There is a large …showed first 75 words of 1131 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1131 total…lived in the mottes, which would have been used largely as watch towers. There is no information about Pleshey that would prove this to be otherwise. A bailey at Hen Domen, Montgomery produced evidence for a chapel, a tower, and several buildings of domestic and other uses including the keeping of horses, with four to five successive building phases over c.150 years. Information in question one shows that Pleshey too included many of the above.