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Castillo de Teayo
Castillo de Teayo (Tetzapotitlan) is a Huasteca-region archaeological site in northern Veracruz, Mexico: a three-body pyramid with temple, about 60 Mexica-influenced sculptures, occupied 900–1521 AD, with an on-site museum.
Castillo del Lago
Castillo del Lago is a 1926 Spanish Colonial Revival estate at 6342 Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills, designed by John DeLario, later linked to Bugsy Siegel and owned by Madonna from 1993 to 1996.
Castillo San Felipe del Morro
Castillo San Felipe del Morro (El Morro) is a Spanish fortress begun in 1539 on a 140-foot promontory at the entrance to San Juan Bay, Puerto Rico; completed around 1790, it survived Drake, Clifford, and Dutch attacks, became Fort Brooke, and joined UNESCO's 1983 World Heritage listing.
Castle Acre Castle (United Kingdom)
Castle Acre Castle is the earthwork remains of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle in the Norfolk village of Castle Acre, England, begun in the 1070s by William I de Warenne.
Castle Acre Priory (United Kingdom)
Castle Acre Priory: ruined Cluniac monastery at Castle Acre, Norfolk, England, founded by the de Warenne family (monks from Lewes 1081–85, new site 1089), dissolved 22 November 1537; Grade I listed ruins with Norman west front, English Heritage since 1984.
Castle an Dinas
Castle an Dinas, St Columb Major, Cornwall: a large four-rampart Iron Age hillfort on Castle Downs containing two Bronze Age bowl barrows, excavated by Wailes 1962-64, later a wolfram mine; distinct from the Ludgvan fort of the same name.
Castle Dore
Castle Dore (Kastel Dor) is a small multivallate Iron Age hillfort near Fowey, Cornwall, built in the 5th–4th centuries BC, excavated by Ralegh Radford in 1936–37, linked to King Mark legend, and a scheduled monument and registered battlefield.
Castle Dykes
Castle Dykes (Castle Dikes, Castledykes): name shared by several British earthwork sites, chiefly an Iron Age-dated henge in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, plus a Roman villa enclosure near North Stainley and unrelated Scottish castles and forts.
Castle Greg
Castle Greg is a small Roman fortlet on Camilty Hill, Camilty Plantation, West Lothian, Scotland; a scheduled monument (SM1933) of about 55 by 46 m with double ditches, an east gate, and a garrison of roughly 80 men.
Castle Hill (United Kingdom)
Castle Hill, Almondbury, near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire: scheduled Iron Age hillfort (univallate then multivallate), twelfth-century motte and bailey castle, and deserted medieval village, excavated by W.J. Varley 1939-1973.
Castle House
Castle House, West Street, Buckingham: Grade I listed town house with a 1708 brick front range and late 15th-century wings; home to Bartons, Fowlers and Lambards, visited by Henry VII, Catherine of Aragon, Charles I, Jefferson and Adams.
Castle Island (Massachusetts)
Castle Island is a 22-acre South Boston peninsula in Boston Harbor, home of Fort Independence (formerly Castle William), the oldest fortified site in British North America, fortified since the 1630s and a state park since 1962.
Castle of Antimachia
Castle of Antimachia (Κάστρο Αντιμάχειας), a Knights Hospitaller fortress on Kos, Greece, built early 14th century, triangular plan, famed for repelling a 23-day Ottoman siege in 1457; free entry, 24 km from Kos town.
Castle of Gradara
Castle of Gradara (Rocca di Gradara), medieval fortress and walled village at Gradara, Marche, Italy, on a 142 m hill near the Romagna border; twelfth-century keep, Malatesta, Sforza, and Della Rovere owners, 1446 siege, restored 1921, setting of the Paolo and Francesca legend.
Castle of Oria
Castle of Oria (Katakefalos, Κάστρο της Ωριάς): ruined medieval fortified settlement on NW Kythnos, Cyclades; Latin-era capital, Gozzadini residence, destroyed by Ottomans in the 1570s; distinct from the Frederick II castle at Oria, Italy.
Castle of Paralio Astros
Castle of Paralio Astros (Castle of the Zafeiropouloi), coastal fortress on the Nisi hill at Paralio Astros, Arcadia, Greece. Rebuilt 1824-1825 by the Zafeiropoulos brothers; repelled Ibrahim Pasha's forces on August 5-6, 1826; Frankish Estella attribution disputed.
Castle Rising Castle
Castle Rising Castle: 12th-century Norman hall-keep castle in Norfolk, England, built c.1138 by William d'Albini II, later Queen Isabella's residence (1331-1358); massive earthworks, rare hall keep, owned by Lord Howard of Rising.
Castle wall
Castle wall (NHLE 1001888) is a scheduled monument in Bargate, Southampton: surviving late 14th-century drum towers and bailey wall of Southampton's medieval Royal Castle, stone rubble nearly 20 ft high, also Grade II listed.
Castlecary
Castlecary is the site of a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Falkirk, Scotland, one of only two forts on the wall with stone ramparts.
Castlehill
Castlehill Roman Fort, an unexcavated Antonine Wall fort near Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland; garrisoned by the Fourth Cohort of Gauls, known from distance slabs, aerial survey, and geophysics.
Castor
Castor (Castor Praetorium), Cambridgeshire: a monumental Roman building complex of about 290 by 130 m under the modern village near Durobrivae, termed the 'Praetorium' by Edmund Artis in 1828 and interpreted as villa, palace, or administrative centre.
Castra ad Herculem
Castra ad Herculem was a late Roman fort at Pilismarót in Komárom-Esztergom County, Hungary, built at the Danube bend between 294 and 297 AD under Diocletian.
Castra Caecilia
Castra Caecilia (Cáceres el Viejo): late Republican Roman legionary camp in Lusitania, Spain, founded by Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius around 79 BC during the Sertorian War; about 24 ha, double rock-cut ditch, mentioned by Pliny and the Antonine Itinerary.
Castra Germanorum
Castra Germanorum, a Roman coastal fort in Mauretania Caesariensis (Algeria), attested by Ptolemy (IV, 2, 4) between Cartenna and Gunugus; unlocated archaeologically, placed near the Oued Damous by Leveau.
Castra Iarba
Castra Iarba (also Castris rubris, Kastrazarba, Καστράζαρβα), a Roman fortified road station in Thrace on the Philippopolis–Hadrianopolis highway near Izvorovo, Bulgaria, refortified under Justinian I.
Castra Martis
Castra Martis, a late Roman fortress complex in Kula, Vidin Province, Bulgaria, with a quadriburgium and castellum guarding the Bononia-Singidunum road; excavated since the 1970s and again from 2023.
Castra of Drobeta
Castra of Drobeta: Roman fort (123 x 137.50 m) at Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania, built 103-105 AD under Trajan to guard the northern end of Trajan's Bridge; phases Trajanic, Constantinian, Romano-Byzantine.
Castra Peregrina
Castra Peregrina (Castra Peregrinorum), a small Roman barracks on the Caelian hill in Rome housing provincial soldiers, mainly frumentarii couriers and intelligence agents, with a mithraeum, excavated 1905-9 and 1969-75.
Castra Praetorii Mobeni
Castra Praetorii Mobeni, the ancient name of Qasr Bshir (قصر بشير), is a Roman quadriburgium fort in Jordan built 293–305 under Diocletian on the Limes Arabicus; among the best-preserved Roman forts, with 23 stable rooms and a Tetrarchic gate inscription.
Castra Traiana
Castra Traiana: Roman auxiliary fort at Sâmbotin, Dăești, Vâlcea county, Romania, on the left bank of the Olt; Hadrianic stone fort about 70 m across, later rebuilt in the 3rd century.