Talk:Longtown Castle

Expansion...
I've gone through and given the article a bit of a scrub. I've updated the sources to the most recent works and added a map. Hchc2009 (talk) 08:54, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Update required to Longtown Castle entry
This article is now completely out of date and has been superceded by the results of a 3 year Heritage Lottery Funded archaeology and documentary research project at the Castle 2015-2018. The project has shown that the Norman Castle was indeed superimposed on the ramparts of a Roman fort, dated by pottery finds and radiocarbon methods to the second half of the first century. The Roman ramparts, made from piled-up turf, were never replaced in stone, so the fort was probably abandoned some time in the second century AD.

The project has also shown that the stone keep replaced the earlier wooden one around 1150, probably by Gilbert de Lacy, Lord of Ewyas at that time. The stone bailey wall was erected at the same time, although the cross wall and gatehouse, dividing the western bailey is of later construction, probably early 13th century.

The English Heritage website entry for Longtown Castle has now been updated to include the above information. We are happy to do the same for the Wikipedia entry.

Regards, The Longtown Castles Project Team --Mungoherdman (talk) 10:24, 20 September 2018 (UTC)