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The comprehensive gazetteer of the medieval fortifications and castles of CornwallConfidenceThe confidence key is very much a guide and not a definitive statement. These classifications are not fixed and can and do change. A notable example would be Acton Bank in Shropshire which David J. Cathcath King rejected as a burial mound but which on a latter aerial photograph clearly shows the crop mark of a bailey. It should also be remembered that many authors, particularly older authorities like King, held a very military definition of the castle and some sites that are rejected may actual fulfil a less military definition. The confidence guide is not a statement of how certain it is that a site existed but how certain it is that a site existed as a fortification or as otherwise described. I have attempted to record all sites that have ever been proposed as medieval fortifications including all that have since been rejected.
It should be noted that David King's 'possible' sites, in Castellarium Anglicanum, tend to be closer to my questionable sites. RemainsI have attempted to give some idea of the amount of visible remains. I have not visited all the sites listed and this information is based on site descriptions and may well be out of date or otherwise inaccurate. The remains categories are;
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