00:00 mound is the remains of a Motte and Bailey castle, so the Motte being the large mound upon which
00:07 there would have been a kind of a defendable structure at the top. So, and it sat within
00:14 obviously the historic city walls of Canterbury, so it's right in the heart of Canterbury and it
00:20 currently sits within an open park, so there's good public access to the mound. And there's
00:28 a spiral path that goes up the mound because obviously people love going up there because
00:32 you get fantastic views across the city from up there, but effectively it's been the kind of victim
00:40 of its own success or its own popularity because the number of visitors going up the path is
00:47 causing erosion of the mound itself, which is obviously important archaeologically, it's a
00:53 scheduled monument. So there are repairs needed to repair the paths, there's a pinnacle, a monument
01:02 at the top as well and that's being undermined and ultimately if we don't sort that out that
01:08 could topple off, so that's, it's for those reasons that it's on the at-risk register.
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