Thanks Tabdigger.
Remember its only the good stuff i show, i have around 3 tonne of junk !!
Im lucky to live right next to land that has had a motte and Bailey castle, a railway line opened in 1858 ( now gone ) and a drainage ditch dug in 1785.
Archeology reports say the castle area has been used for around 2500 years so the land has been worked for much the same time, although much was under water as low level and this was used to create a natural moat around the castle until 1785 when the ditch was dug to drain the land and increase crop production.
I have added a few pics and i hope members dont mind , it just gives you an idea of what im talking about ( hopefully )
Top left is the Motte on which a wooden fortification would of stood but by 1300 this would of changed to a stone fortification, in front would of been the baily which was defended by a wooden palisaide, castle workers would live within the bailey, in the pic at around 1 o clock in the background is the castles docot used to roost birds so eggs could be eaten or the birds this was built around 1450. Top right is the great ditch dug in 1785 to drain the land. Btm left also the great ditch and the embankment created was where they put the railway line. Btm right is what parts of the land still look like, the Gaelic name for this place means place of the rushes or reeds so always been wet.