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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
Alstoe Mount is a fine example of a motte and bailey castle, situated 1 mile north-east of Burley village and 3 miles north-east of Oakham; it is on the east side of the road from Burley to Cottesmore, and immediately north-west of Alstoe House (fig. 1). The mount is on the level summit of the long ridge running northwards into Lincolnshire, at a height of 490 ft. O.D., and is about 150 ft. above the vale of Catmose. Towards the south the high ground terminates in a spur running to Burley, and possibly the mount was placed to safeguard the passage of traffic from this direction, near the point where it branched, either south-east to Stamford or northwards to Lincoln.
page 395 note 1 6 in. O.S. Rutland, sheet V, SE.
page 397 note 1 V.C.H. Rutland, i, 112.
page 397 note 2 Department of Maps, no. 38841.
page 398 note 1 Archaeological Journ. lxx, 83.
page 402 note 1 V.C.H. Rutland, ii, 107.
page 402 note 2 Ibid, i, 131-2.
page 402 note 3 Ibid, i, 112.
page 402 note 4 Ibid, ii, 112.
page 404 note 1 Archaeologia, lxxxiii, 109.
page 404 note 2 Antiq. Journ. xi, 256.
page 404 note 3 Ibid, xv, 185.
page 406 note 1 Proc. Cambridge Antiq. Soc. xxxiii, 137 ft.
page 408 note 1 Proc. Cambridge Antiq. Soc. xxxv, 97 ff.
page 408 note 2 Antiq. Journ. xi, figs. 6-7.
page 408 note 3 Wilts. Arch. Mag. xlvi, 261.
page 410 note 1 Sussex Arch. Coll. lxxvi, 167.
page 410 note 2 Armitage, E. S., Early Norman Castles, p. 216Google Scholar.
page 411 note 1 Reliquary, xv, 207.
