Talk:Bramber Castle

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This section by Neb503 14:21, 2 December 2006 (UTC) moved to main article Bramber Castle by MortimerCat 10:25, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Robin Hood Syndrome
Not certain what the sources for this are, but it sounds almost Victorian in language, and I would advise readers to research the reign of John from a variety of sources before judging him.

Onto the castle, Whilst I have not been able to find any reliable dating of the gate house keep, to date this before c.12 would make it one of, if not the oldest stone tower keep in this style in England (meaning not in Bishop Gundulf's style of Colchester or London).

It should be made clear that the Motte itself, the hill in the centre of the site is man-made but may predate the conquest (Edward the Confessor invited many Norman's to England, many of whom may have built castles), it is the larger hill that the walls stand on which is natural, although it would not be beyond the wit of Norman engineering to improve it.

Again, a stone curtain wall would be unusual in c.11, although not unheard of, as the first castles were thrown up in a matter of days or weeks after Hastings to 'nail the countryside' Walls of this thickness would have taken some time to put up. Also worthy of note is that whilst Bramber may be described as a double bailey castle (the bailey being the area within the walls), nothing separates the two baileys, as say at Arundel., so arguably this is a very different design with a single bailey with Motte in the middle.

Finally I believe Bramber never stood on the coast,but that he course of the Adur has changed, and that whilst great trading ships came to the port, once the river silted up this became impossible and the town died.

Phil Reid (talk) 07:49, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

New images
I recently uploaded some 17th century engravings of Bramber Castle by Wenceslas Hollar, shown below. Feel free to use or not use - I placed the last one in the page for now. Dcoetzee 11:16, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

copyvio?
http://www.mspong.org/picturesque/bramber_castle.html

remeber to check.Genisock2 (talk) 04:32, 10 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Archive.org says it was. this on the other hand appears to have copied from us.©Geni 00:21, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

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