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Sheffield Castle was a castle in Sheffield, England, constructed at the confluence of the River Sheaf and the River Don, possibly on the site of a former Anglo-Saxon ...
Sheffield Castle was a castle in Sheffield, ... United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe; View on OpenStreetMap; Latitude. 53.38406° or 53° 23' 3" north.
Apr 12, 2021 · In 2018 Wessex Archaeology, assisted by The University of Sheffield Department of Archaeology, the Friends of Sheffield Castle and volunteers from the local community, undertook the excavation of 11 trenches to determine what, if anything remains of Sheffield Castle.
Sheffield City Council plans to create a park and events space and to expose some of remains of the castle. The Friends of Sheffield Castle said they had waited almost a decade for the excavations ...
May 23, 2024 · A team of archaeologists from Wessex Archaeology excavating the derelict Castle Market site for Sheffield City Council’s Castlegate regeneration project has discovered new evidence of the medieval Sheffield Castle – hailed the birthplace of Sheffield. Among the remains unearthed is the castle’s drawbridge pier – a dressed sandstone platform on which the drawbridge to the castle would ...
May 22, 2024 · The council plans to put the castle's remains on public display for the first time in centuries and create a brand new public space on the site of the old Castle Market. Sheffield City Council
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Almost two hundred years later in 1837, Duke George Montagu built the current castle to serve as the residence of the Montagu family in Ireland. In the 1950s, the castle and estate were sold by Alexander Montagu to a business man from Tandragee by the name of Mr. Hutchison, and so the castle came to house the Tayto potato crisp factory and the ...