Scarborough Castle
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Contributors:
Charlotte Tupman
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 22, 2024 03:53 PM
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History
tags:
extant remains
The ruins of a medieval castle built ca. A.D. 1135 by William le Gros, Earl of Albemarle. Now an English Heritage site.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/272290638
54.2873820683, -0.388231582892
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Scarborough Castle (AD 640 - Present) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Scarborough Castle (English, modern)
- Scarborough Castle located at Scarborough (unspecified date range)
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Now ruined, the edifice of Scarborough Castle began as a twelfth century wooden fortress. The site of the castle, however, was in use in the Iron Age when a hillfort was located on the site and again during the Roman period.
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, and Charlotte Tupman, 'Scarborough Castle: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/272290638> [accessed: 26 December 2024]
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