Historical Reconstructions using 3D media

It is known that during the latter half of the 11th Century, Hugh d'Avranches, the later Earl of Chester, erected a motte and bailey style castle with great defensive earthworks and palisades on a steep sided plateau known as the “Needwood Plateau” in the “bugh” village of Tutbury. Shortly after completion it was gifted to the De Ferrers family in 1071. This is the year that has been chosen to be reconstructed as it was the first recorded history of Tutbury castle. All that remains of this time period are accounts in history books and the knowledge that Tutbury would have had a wooden castle c1068 due to the surviving earthworks, which show classic characteristics of a motte and bailey castle.