Archaeologists excavating the historic Sheffield Castle site have uncovered rare 17th-century wooden stakes, believed to be defenses from the English Civil War.

The Normans built a motte-and-bailey castle in the late 11th century, and the moat is still one of the largest of its kind in Great Britain. The remains of this imposing motte and bailey castle ...

The waterlogged conditions of the moat provided ideal preservation conditions ... First constructed as a motte and bailey following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, the castle is viewed ...