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Author Ludlow, Neil

Title Carmarthen Castle : the Archaeology of Government
Published Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (434 pages)
Contents Cover; Foreword by Eifion Bowen, Carmarthenshire County Council; Foreword by Kenneth Murphy, Dyfed Archaeological Trust; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1 INTRODUCTION: 'A CERTAIN GOOD DONJON'; A brief overview; Historiography; Location, setting and early settlement; An introductory description; 2 CARMARTHEN CASTLE AND ITS PLACE IN MEDIEVAL WALES; Origins; Politics and war; A centre of government; The motte and shell-keep; The castle in the landscape; 3 THE PHYSICAL REMAINS; The curtain walls and towers; The Great Gatehouse and bridge
The castle interiorThe gaol wall, yard and Old Police Station; 4 RECONSTRUCTING THE CASTLE; Phase 1: The timber castle, 1106-1180; Phase 2: The shell-keep, 1181-1222?; Phase 3: The masonry defences, 1223-1240; Phase 4: Buildings for the king, 1241-1278; Phase 5: More accommodation, 1279-1300; Phase 6: Buildings for government, 1301-1408; Phase 7: Damage and rebuilding, 1409-c.1550; Social organisation: the castle as a residence; 5 DIVISION, DEMOLITION AND DEVELOPMENT: THE POST-MEDIEVAL CASTLE; Decline: the late sixteenth/mid-seventeenth century
Slighting: from Civil War to Restoration, 1642-1660The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; The new County Gaol, 1789-1868; The late nineteenth-century gaol and County Hall, 1868-1993; 6 POTTERY AND OTHER FINDS; Pottery and glass (Paul Courtney and Dee Williams); Organics and metalwork from medieval deposits (Mark Redknap); Small finds from post-medieval deposits (Mark Redknap, Dee Williamsand Edward Besly); 7 EPILOGUE: THE CASTLE REDISCOVERED; The castle in the present; The castle in the future; Appendix: Documented Development; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
Summary One of Wales's most important but least-known castles is put back at the heart of the history of medieval Wales
Notes Print version record
Subject Carmarthen Castle (Carmarthen, Wales)
SUBJECT Carmarthen Castle (Carmarthen, Wales) fast
Subject Castles -- Wales -- Carmarthen
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Wales -- Carmarthen
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
Antiquities
Castles
Excavations (Archaeology)
SUBJECT Wales -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89002971
Wales -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85144887
Carmarthen (Wales) -- Antiquities
Carmarthen (Wales) -- History
Subject Wales
Wales -- Carmarthen
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781783160136
1783160136