Boisfort feudal motte

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Le château en bref

The Boisfort was a castral motte located about 300 metres from the present-day church of Beffes (Cher), regarded as the original seat of the seigneury of Beffes. It comprised a quadrangular platform measuring 36 m by 38 m bearing traces of walls and a well, surrounded by a 12 m-wide ditch, a second terrace (probably the bailey, where the cemetery now stands) and a third enclosure of ramparts and marshy ditches, absent on the west side where the ground is naturally wet. Fragments of hook tiles and walls indicate occupation until the 16th century. After the site was abandoned, its stones were reused for the construction of the canal, and the northern part became the parish cemetery.