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The monument includes Lewisham Castle, an elliptical embanked platform with an external ditch interpreted as a ringwork, which lies just below the brow of a north facing chalk scarp overlooking Aldbourne Chase.
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The monument includes Lewisham Castle, an elliptical embanked platform with an external ditch interpreted as a ringwork, which lies just below the brow of a north facing chalk scarp overlooking Aldbourne Chase. The platform measures a maximum of 36m east to west internally. Both the bank and the broad `V'-shaped ditch enclosing the platform are mor...
Ringworks are medieval fortifications built and occupied from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the later 12th century. They comprised a small defended area containing buildings which was surrounded or partly surrounded by a substantial ditch and a bank surmounted by a timber palisade or, rarely, a stone wall. Occasionally a more lightly defended emba...
Books and journals Grinsell, LV, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume V, (1957), p.261 Carrington, F A, 'Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine' in Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine, , Vol. 2, (1855), p.126-9 Other Ordnance Survey, SU 27 SW 451, (1973) Title: Sketch Plan - SM 30286 Lewisham Castle Source Date: 1999 Author: Publisher: ...
- Lewisham Castle, Aldbourne, Wiltshire
Lewisham Castle is an archaeological site in Aldbourne, Wiltshire, England. Lewisham Castle is situated nearby to the hamlets Woodsend and Upper Upham . Overview
Lewisham (/ ˈ l uː ɪ ʃ əm / ⓘ LOO-ish-əm) is an area of southeast London, England, six miles (ten kilometres) south of Charing Cross. It is the principal area of the London Borough of Lewisham , and was within the historic county of Kent until 1889.
The monument includes Lewisham Castle, an elliptical embanked platform with an external ditch interpreted as a ringwork, which lies just below the brow of a north facing chalk scarp overlooking Aldbourne Chase. The platform measures a maximum of 36m east to west internally.
Dec 26, 2014 · Lewisham Castle A ringwork, used in the medieval period, though possibly with earlier origins. It consists of an elliptical embankment with an external ditch, and lies just below the brow of a north facing chalk scarp overlooking Aldbourne Chase.
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