Imagining Pleshey

Maybe there's more castle left than you can see from the lower ground?

Or perhaps exciting bits of castle have sunk down into the soft earth?

Perhaps there is a whole castle down there still complete with skeletons and treasure and ghosts?

Maybe there are catacombs inside the mound?

Maybe there is a knight asleep up there or a whole army of knights waiting for a time when Britain needs them!

The castles pictured here are Norman Keeps and most of their architecture survives todays because it was made with stone. Pleshey castle probably would have mostly been made out of wood, which is why you can't see any ruins standing on the mound from the ground.

As you can see from the image here, these Norman Keeps would have had wooden floorboards on their upper levels- where you can see the windows, but they've rotted away over time.

Perhaps there is treaure up there!

Perhaps at the dead of night the council are up there with metal detectors trying to find where they need to start digging? It would be a big job that's for sure!

Perhaps a dragon is guarding the treasure?

Perhaps there is a secret map that leads to buried treasure?

Perhaps there is a vast room under the mound filled with treausre- like in the film National Treasure.

One thing's for sure- if Essex county councillors start coating their houses in gold then we know something strange and exciting has been found up on Pleshey's mound.

Hidden treasures by Annaart
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I saw this cartooon once, like the one above, I think it was in one of my childhood books and I genuinely thought that every single hill had a dinosaur underneath it and that the hill was made up from the curve of their spine.

I didn't take Geography for GCSE so for all I know that could be true!

I believe the mounds, made for Motte and Bailey Castles, are made by piling up all the earth that you dig up for the moat bit. Who knows, maybe they used a dinosaur skeleton to give the piled up earth a bit of structure? Otherwise they might well have ended up with a sunken castle!

Perhaps dragon bones are sticking up out of the ground. Perhaps the gates are locked because Essex County Council don't want people tripping on the bones and then trying to sue them for conpensation?

Maybe a gang of punky little lost boys live up there, running riot? It's time Peter Pan updated his look!

the boy poster by AutumnsGoddess
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