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Tutbury: 'A Castle Firmly Built' - Archaeological and historical investigations at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire (Paperback, New)
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Tutbury: 'A Castle Firmly Built' - Archaeological and historical investigations at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire (Paperback, New)
Series: British Archaeological Reports British Series
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A report on the archaeological and historical investigations
undertaken at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire. The town of Tutbury is
situated on the eastern border of Staffordshire in central England
some 15km south west of Derby and 6.5km north west of Burton upon
Trent. Around 1068-69 the Normans founded a motte and bailey castle
on a tactically advantageous bluff above the town with the
strategic purpose of controlling important north-south and
east-west routes of communication. Attacks on the castle in the
12th, 13th and 14th centuries may be cited as evidence of a
continuing military significance down to 1322, when, as one of
Thomas earl of Lancaster's castles, it was sacked by the forces of
Edward II. As part of the duchy of Lancaster estate it became a
royal property from 1399 and was extensively rebuilt during the
15th century; it is this late medieval phase that plays the most
significant part in defining the architectural character of the
castle today. The Civil War revived interest in the strategic and
tactical advantages of the site, and ultimately led to the castle's
destruction, although an afterlife ensued in the 18th century as a
farm and romantic ruin.
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