All that remains of Foss Castle is a prominent hill which was once part of a motte and bailey castle. The motte is a circular, man-made mound and the bailey would be the attached enclosures. Although now surrounded by woodland, when the castle was originally built in the 1070s, it would have been situated in a more open landscape. It is thought that the earthworks developed over several phases, the area had long-standing Anglo-Saxon links and the nearby church has “hogback” grave markers dating to the the 8th-10th centuries. The…
