Cymbeline's Castle

Cymbeline's Castle, also known as Cymbeline's Mound and Belinus's Castle, is the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle in woods north-east of Great Kimble in Buckinghamshire, England. It is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.^[1]

Cymbeline's Castle
Cymbeline's Castle and Little Kimble
Highest point
Coordinates	51.7499°N 0.7955°W / 51.7499; -0.7955
Geography
Location	Great Kimble, Buckinghamshire
OS grid	SP 83265 06350

The motte is about 42 metres (138 ft) in diameter and encircled on three sides by a ditch, outside which lie two additional baileys. Within the baileys have been found pottery fragments of the 13th–15th centuries, and Iron Age and Romano-British fragments have been recovered to the east of the remains.^[1] A short distance to the west are remains of another motte-and-bailey castle, along with a moated enclosure and a Roman villa.^[2]

The name associates it with the ancient British king Cunobeline (Cymbeline), although this may be a Victorian invention.^[1] (There is also a theory that the nearby villages of Great Kimble, Little Kimble and Kimble Wick are named after Cymbeline;^[3] however, this has been discredited, as the etymology of Kimble is a description of the hill rather than a name.^[4])

It is said that if one runs around this mound seven times, the devil will appear.^[5]