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| Name: | POSSIBLE MEDIEVAL CASTLE AT CAISTOR |
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| HER Number: | MLI50492 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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Summary
POSSIBLE MEDIEVAL CASTLE AT CAISTOR
| Parish: | CAISTOR, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Full description
IN JUNE 1143 KING STEPHEN FORTIFIED HIS CASTLE AT CASITOR AND IT STOOD A SIEGE. WHETHER THIS REFERS ONLY TO A REFURBISHMENT OF THE ROMAN WALLED ENCLOSURE, OR TO A FORTIFICATION ON CASTLE HILL THAT MIGHT USED THE WHOLE OR PART OF THE ENCLOSURE AS A BAILEY, IS NOT KNOWN, BUT THE LATTER MIGHT ACCOUNT FOR THE ALIGNMENT OF THE WEST END OF CHURCH STREET. {1}
<1> P.L. Everson, C.C. Taylor and C.J. Dunn, 1991, Change and Continuity: Rural Settlement in North-West Lincolnshire, P VII, 48;ARCHIVE NOTES (Bibliographic Reference). SLI1063.
<2> RENN, D.F., 1973, NORMAN CASTLES IN BRITAIN, P 353 2ND EDITION (Bibliographic Reference). SLI904.
Monument Types
- CASTLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Bibliographic Reference: P.L. Everson, C.C. Taylor and C.J. Dunn. 1991. Change and Continuity: Rural Settlement in North-West Lincolnshire. P VII, 48;ARCHIVE NOTES. |
| <2> | Bibliographic Reference: RENN, D.F.. 1973. NORMAN CASTLES IN BRITAIN. P 353 2ND EDITION. |
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