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Taunton Castle

There are 33 scheduled monuments in Taunton Deane, a local government district with borough status in Somerset, England. A scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or monument which is given legal protection by being placed on a list (or "schedule") by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; English Heritage takes the leading role in identifying such sites. Many of the scheduled monuments are Neolithic through to the Bronze and Iron Ages, including bowl barrows, cairns, and hill forts, such as Norton Camp. Castle Neroche was an Iron Age hill fort which was reused as a Norman motte-and-bailey castle. Burrow Mump shows evidence of Roman use but is better known as a Norman motte-and-bailey castle, and later church. The Medieval period is represented by several churchyard crosses. The defensive walls and part of Taunton Castle (pictured), which has Anglo-Saxon origins and was expanded during the Medieval and Tudor eras, is included. (Full list...)

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