Scarborough Castle
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/272290638
54.2895333, -0.3875331
- 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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fort, tower (deprecated)
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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, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/272290638> [accessed: 22 November 2024]
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