Here's hoping the good weather holds for Saturday when I'll be leading a couple of tours around Pevensey Castle https://englishheritage.seetickets.com/event/puzzling-over-pevensey-the-demolishing-of-1216/pevensey-castle-east-sussex/3357399 #archaeology #castleslighting #PevenseyCastle
📷 by Piotr Zarobkiewicz, CC-BY-SA 3.0
With a busy start to the year, evenings and weekends have been important for downtime. That does mean less headspace to work on my book, until last weekend.
It felt great to get back into a rhythm and push ahead. #archaeology #castles #CastleSlighting
Naturally I skipped to the bit which discussed the events of 1216 when John ordered the castle's destruction. In short it says it's not clear cut whether the orders were followed.
That's absolutely right, and I explore the subject in detail in a paper I've submitted to the Sussex Archaeological Collections. Hopefully it will appear in the next volume as that would be a neat bridge from this one. #PevenseyCastle #CastleSlighting #SussexArchaeologicalCollections #Sussex #archaeology #castles
Lila Rakoczy's PhD thesis is the definitive work on castles 🏰 destroyed or damaged as a result of the British Civil War in the 17th century. I was just able to add to Wikipedia more detail to the description of the possible slighting of Clitheroe Castle in Lancashire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitheroe_Castle#15th_to_17th_century
@gorfram slighting was deliberately damaging a high status structure. My research looks at how this applies to castles. It covers a range of different activities. Quite a few castle ruins in the UK are in that condition because they were slighted at one point.
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