This book tells a new story of the royal castle of Lincoln in the north of England, how it was imposed on the late Anglo-Saxon town, and how it developed over the next 900 years in the hands of the English king or his aristocratic associates, leaving us a surviving monument of three great towers, each with its own biography. Led by FAS Heritage, archaeologists, architectural historians and a large cohort of the general public have combined to produce a revealing and accessible account of the story of Lincoln Castle and a reborn historical attraction for the city of Lincoln.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of tables
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Picture credits
• 1. The campaign to reveal Lincoln Castle
  • Introduction
  • Opportunity
    • Research incentives
    • Community involvement
    • A guide to this book
  • Overview
    • Before the Romans
    • Roman Lincoln
    • Post-Roman and Anglo-Saxon Lincoln
    • The medieval castle
    • Coda: Lincoln Castle into the 21st century
• 2. The Roman fortress and colonia
  • Introduction
  • The legionary fortress
    • Remains of the fortress in the grounds of Castle Moat House
  • The Roman colonia
    • Archaeological observations made in the grounds of Castle Moat House
    • The Roman colonia beneath the castle
    • Structures 13 and 14, Roman ‘strip’ houses
    • Structure 15, a late Roman townhouse
  • Significant Roman finds
    • A statue of Domitian?
    • Life in the townhouse
  • The end of Roman Lincoln
• 3. The city beneath the castle
  • Roman to medieval in the Upper City
  • Early medieval settlement before the castle
  • The lost cemetery and church or chapel
    • Burial 9
    • Burial 1, the foundation burial
    • Burial 11
    • Burial 3
    • Burial 2
    • Burial 6, with Burial
    • Burial 4
    • Burial 5, the sarcophagus burial
    • The sarcophagus
  • Who lived and died in the former Roman city? Portrait of a community
  • The documentary context of the Masons’ Yard church or chapel
• 4. The early castle and the Lucy Tower
  • An introduction to Lincoln Castle
    • Lincoln and the Norman Conquest
  • The early castle
    • The southern enclosure and the lost South Gate
  • The Lucy Tower
    • Countess Lucy
    • The pike mark
    • A study of the shell-keep
    • Inside the Lucy Tower
    • The lost chambers
• 5. The castle gates and walls
  • Introduction
  • West Gate
    • West Gate barbican and tower
  • East Gate
  • The Magna Aula or Great Hall
  • The castle walls
    • East curtain wall
    • North curtain wall
    • West curtain wall
• 6. The Observatory Tower
  • East Range
  • Ranulf’s Tower
    • Lincoln Castle and the Anarchy
    • Structures 9 and 10
  • The gaol tower
  • Feasting at Lincoln Castle – the 12th-century midden
    • A commentary on the dice, by Mark Hall
    • A commentary on the animal bones, by Matilda Holmes
• 7. Cobb Hall and the last flowering of the medieval castle
  • Historical introduction, from King John to Henry III
  • Strengthening a fortress
  • Cobb Hall, a new tower
    • Martial
    • Official
    • Regal
  • All the king’s horses, the castle stables, mill and brewhouse
  • Cobb Hall and Lincoln Castle in the Civil War
• 8. Lincoln Castle recreated
  • The Old Gaol and County Hall
  • The Georgian gaol, 1785–1788
    • The gaol yards
  • The 1820s debtors’ yard or airing court
    • The new debtors’ yard
  • Keepers of the gaol
  • The 1840s prison
    • The Eastern Courtyard
  • Death and burial
  • Romantic ruins
    • Governor John Merryweather and the gentrification of Lincoln Castle
  • E J Willson and Lincoln Castle recreated
  • Lincoln Castle into the 21st century
• 9 Legacy
  • Overview
    • The Roman to Anglo-Scandinavian Upper City
    • The medieval castle
    • Rebirth: the Lincoln Castle Revealed project
• Digest of evidence
  • General
    • 1 Glossary of terms
    • 2 Master index to interventions
  • Roman
    • 3 Roman pottery, Ian M. Rowlandson
    • 4 Roman finds, H.E.M Cool
    • 5 Roman glass, H.E.M Cool
    • 6 Roman coin list, Craig Barclay
    • 7 Roman spindle whorl, Penelope Walton Rogers
  • Anglo-Saxon, medieval and later
    • 8 Post-Roman pottery, Jane Young
    • 9 The human bone, Shirley Curtis-Summers
    • 10 Multi-isotope analysis, Mandy Jay and Janet Montgomery with data reporting by Derek Hamilton and Kerry Sayle
    • 11 Radiocarbon dating, stable isotope analyses and Bayesian modelling, Derek Hamilton and Kerry Sayle
    • 12 Evidence for textiles, Penelope Walton Rogers
    • 13 Medieval and later finds, Cecily Spall
• Bibliography