Present
This site is a Scheduled Monument. All that remains today of it is Castle Mound, a tree-covered earthworks mound, within the grounds of Marlborough College. Traces of Neolithic and Roman occupation have been found in the vicinity of the Castle Mound. Parts of the keep and curtain wall have been identified by excavation and a Roman coin recovered.
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