A 12th-century fortified palace built by Bishop Roger around AD 1130. The castle was destroyed in the civil war and converted into a romantic ruin by the Digby family as part of their landscaped park attached to Sherborne New Castle.
| --- | SDO10286 - Article in serial: Bean, C E. 1951. Excavations at Sherborne Old Castle; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 73. |
| --- | SDO10301 - Article in serial: Bean, C E. 1950. Excavations at Sherborne Old Castle; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. |
| --- | SDO10302 - Article in serial: Bean, C E. 1952. Excavations at Sherborne Old Castle; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 74. |
| --- | SDO10303 - Article in serial: Bean, C E. 1955. Excavations at Sherborne Old Castle. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 77. p.141-2. |
| --- | SDO10317 - Article in serial: Keen, L. 1976. Castleton; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 98. |
| --- | SDO10318 - Article in serial: Webster, L E and Cherry, J. 1974. Dorset: Castleton, Sherborne Old Castle; Medieval Archaeology. 18. p.195. |
| --- | SDO10319 - Article in serial: Harrison, B P and Williams, DF. 1979. Sherborne Old Castle, Dorset: medieval pottery fabrics; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 101. |
| --- | SDO10572 - Article in serial: White, P. 1983. Sherborne Old Castle; Archaeological Journal. 140. |
| --- | SDO14493 - Unpublished document: Steinmetzer, M F R. 2009. Archaeological monitoring of a new water main at the Old Castle, Sherborne, Dorset. |
| --- | SDO16467 - Unpublished document: Smith, W. 2000. Medieval Charred Plant Remains and Charcoal from Sherborne Old Castle, Dorset. |
| --- | SDO16506 - Unpublished document: Chalk, R A and Chase, S T. 1975. Resistivity Survey at Sherborne Old Castle. |
| --- | SDO16666 - Unpublished document: Reilly, S. 1996. Sherborne Old Castle, Sherborne, Dorset. Watching Brief. |
| --- | SDO17262 - Unpublished document: Vartuca, Franco A. 2005. Sherborne Old Castle, Sherborne, Dorset. Programme of Archaeological Recording. |
| --- | SDO17263 - Unpublished document: Trott, M. 1988. Sherborne Old Castle, Dorset. |
| --- | SDO49 - Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1950. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1949. 71. 68. |
| --- | SDO50 - Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1951. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1950. 72. 93-94. |
| --- | SDO51 - Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1952. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1951. 73. 106-109. |
| --- | SDO52 - Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1953. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1952. 74. 107-108. |
| --- | SDO55 - Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1956. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1955. 77. 141-142. |
| --- | SDO76 - Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1978. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1976. 98. 54. |
| --- | SDO97 - Bibliographic reference: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England. 1952. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset. Volume One (West). 64-66. |
| --- | SWX9199 - Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1992. Summary List of Projects in Dorset 1992. |
| --- | SWX9303 - Article in serial: Farrar R A H (ed ). 1949. Archaeological Notes, 1949; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. Vol 71. |
| <1> | SDO9937 - Index: National Monuments Record. NMR Monument Record. ST 61 NW 47; NMR UID: 650832. |