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Re: Skipsea
Feb 01, 2008, 07:04
ryaner wrote:
Penske666 wrote:
I'm guessing the Normans built on top of existing mounds to save time building mottes (me mum's idea not mine - but I agree)


I'm sure your mum's right. Some of the mottes I've seen here in Ireland, particularly one below the Slieve na Calliagh hills, have that air of the pre-historic about them.


If you're talking about the one just south of Patrickstown, I believe that one is known to have been a barrow first. I don't have details, but I know that a number of mottes have been dug into in Ireland and a large proportion of them had burials in them.
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