Weobley Castle
Herefordshire
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This
project was carried out with the
Weobley and district Local History
Society
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first
phase of this project ran between August and December
2002. The fieldwork element of the
second phase ended on 14th November 2004. |
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An
Anatomy of a Castle: The Weobley Castle Project
edited
by George Nash and George Children, this book is about
phase 1 of the project.
It
is published by Logaston
Press - £5.95 |
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The
motte of Weobley Castle in 2004 |
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Weobley
Castle (631) on the 1838 Tithe Map |
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The
second phase
- Autumn 2004
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The
second phase of the project was the excavation of
a series of trenches around and on the site of the
castle. This is took place on alternative weekends
and ended on 14th November 2004.
This successfully demonstrated the presence of 15th
and 16th century structures within the castle bailey
- see below.
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The
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towards Weobley from the castle
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surveying |
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Excavations in the area around
the castle |
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Remains of the walls of a building to the west of the castle
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Excavations within the bailey |
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Medieval stone floor at Weobley
Castle
This floor was within one of the buildings in the bailey |
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Two houses in the bailey shown on
Silas Taylor's plan. The floor above seems to have been in the
right hand 'dwelling house' |
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base of a wall in the bailey |
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Back
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Reporting
George Nash and
George Children (eds), 2003, An Anatomy of a Castle: The
Weobley Castle Project, Logaston Press
George Nash and
Brian Redwood (eds), 2006, Looking beyond the Castle
Walls: The Weobley Castle Project, British
Archaeological Reports, British Series 415, Archaeopress
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