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Old Sarum: The Rise and Fall of a Norman Centre of Power in Southern England
Alexander Langlands 
Anglo-Norman Studies, Volume: 47, Pages: 172 - 194
Swansea University Author:
Alexander Langlands
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Abstract
Given the exceptional size of its ringwork, scale of imposition in the landscape, and the remarkable symmetry between its central motte and concentric multivallate form, it is somewhat surprising that Old Sarum has garnered only passing commentary in general studies of Norman castles. Considered by...
| Published in: | Anglo-Norman Studies |
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| ISSN: | 9781837652884 9781805438410 |
| Published: |
Woodbridge
Boydell & Brewer
2025
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70890 |
| Abstract: |
Given the exceptional size of its ringwork, scale of imposition in the landscape, and the remarkable symmetry between its central motte and concentric multivallate form, it is somewhat surprising that Old Sarum has garnered only passing commentary in general studies of Norman castles. Considered by its stewards to have elements of international and national significance, and as one of very few ‘urban’ castles in Wiltshire and Somerset, it was evidently intended to be of regional administrative importance, with a case for constitutional significance in its connections to Domesday Book. A recent review of the substantial but problematic archaeological records has established that the form the monument takes today is largely the result of the Iron Age hillfort being extensively refashioned in the half-century or so following 1066 and this study seeks to develop that analysis to explore what the monument tells us of the Norman Conquest and its aftermath in the following century. |
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| Keywords: |
Medieval, castles, landscape, Anglo-Norman, Archaeology |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Funders: |
Society of Antiqauries |
| Start Page: |
172 |
| End Page: |
194 |