Archaeological summaries and architectural catalogue leads strengthen the physical history, while two chapters and a monument date receive explicit qualifications.
This update incorporates older records newly located for the project. It does not announce a new excavation, a site inspection, or a deed resolving the lordship’s descent. Published heritage summaries have been read; the original reports identified through them remain uninspected and are marked accordingly in the research ledger.
Castle, Drain, and Garden
The Norman chapter now includes the 1981 excavation at 15a Dane John and the 1996 mound survey, using Kent HER’s ditch and mound records. The references to Rady’s 1982 report and Jarman’s article, catalogued as published in 1999, make the next inspection concrete. The dates of fieldwork and publication are kept separate.
Mansion and Outfarm
What Survives of the Dungeon? adds the architectural source trail from MKE24851: the CAT Annual Report 1977–78, page 12, and City Council/RCHME survey 57025. The nearby demolished outfarm in MKE86264 is a separate mapping lead, not an established part of the manor.
Corrections and an Unresolved Date
The Roman chapter no longer presents the mound as an established Roman military lookout or asserts Anglo-Saxon defensive reuse. The Norman chapter no longer assumes an unchanged prehistoric earthwork. These changes extend the qualified chronology recorded in the October note, rather than replacing it with another certain origin story.
The gardens page now records a conflict within Historic England’s descriptions: the gardens entry gives 1803 for the summit monument, while the pinnacle listing gives 1830. The former date is retained provisionally pending contemporary evidence. Existing dated research notes, modern title instruments, and the assessment of the later succession are unchanged.