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The Organisation for those who love Cornwall.
"Cuntelleugh an brewyon us gesys na vo kellys travyth"
(Gather up the fragments that are left that nothing be lost.)
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The comprehensive gazetteer of the medieval fortifications and castles of CornwallPentillyAlso known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Pentillie In the
civil parish of Pillaton. Castle listed by Harvey as known to exist but with no remains. Pentillie Castle is a Gothic style mansion of 1805 designed by Wilkins though this is a remoddeling of a late C17 country house. This may be on site of a medieval castle or merely have managed to get Harvey to accept a story of earlier foundation (Sir James Tillie, the founder of the C17 house, was a self-made man, knighted by James II. Having no coat of arms, he assumed that of the German Count Tilly, which he continued to bear until his pretensions were brought to the King's notice and he was ceremoniously divested of them.).This site has been described as a Timber Castle. These are
the earthwork and timber castles of the motte and bailey or ringwork
form which where the vast majority of castles of the early conquest
period, of the Marches in the 11th and 12th centuries and of the
period during the reign of Stephen known as the Anarchy. They were
generally fairly short lived, although some such castles survived for
centuries, with the timber buildings and defences being replaced on
occasions sometimes in timber and sometimes in Masonry (Alderton
Castle in Northamptonshire was shown in a Time Team excavation to have
been built about 1070 and to still have been having high status
visitors in the C15-a fine piece of enamels horse harness being found
in the gatehouse). Some of the smaller low mottes may have been
adapted into moated manor houses, whilst others where abandoned and
replaced by manor houses of a more comfortable and domestic nature.
Timber castles varied greatly in size with some being massive
constructions clearly deserving the term castle, whilst other were
small mounds of minor knights and had a similar size, function and
social status as the later pele towers. These small mottes are called
'castle' but this could be considered a rather loose use of the term. The
confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is
Questionable. Nothing visible remains.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SX40996455
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