28th July 2010, 10:00 AM
Do "Maiden Bowers" count as castles too? Where my grandparents once lived, in Sewell, a hamlet near Houghton Regis in Beds, there is a small IA hillfort of that name (and of probably earlier date) that made the news a few years ago for the wrong reason, having part of its ramparts breached by a big yellow machine. Not a particularly well-known place, but lovely spot to visit (talking twenty years ago, probably now swallowed up by suburbs!). They lived at White Hill Farm, which, maybe, was the site of a farm that could have served the possible Saxon regio at Houghton. I don't know if anyone has excavated there, bet it has an interesting history.
Good luck with your researches.
Good luck with your researches.