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Sheffield Castle excavations recorded by J.B. Himsworth. Excavation in part of Castle moat which appears to have formed the entrance, showing square pier in centre, probably for a drawbridge to fall upon from the castle gateway

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Ref No:	y00885
Title:	Sheffield Castle excavations recorded by J.B. Himsworth. Excavation in part of Castle moat which appears to have formed the entrance, showing square pier in centre, probably for a drawbridge to fall upon from the castle gateway
Location:	Sheffield_City_Centre
Date:	18/01/1928
Date Period:	1920-1939
Photographer:	J.B. Himsworth
Notes:	Taken from 'Sheffield Castle Excavations', by J.B. Himsworth, Ref: 914.274 SQ. The drawbridge pier was in a remarkable state of preservation, clean cut stone, angle (one only uncovered) perfect, not a stone out of place. This appears to be the deepest part of the moat, and quantities of 'finds' unusually large. Coins and counters with papal signs thereon, shoes, mostly lady's, stag antlers, goat's horns and bones, lots of pottery. At this spot the moat appears to have been thirty feet wide, and the lowest sludge about thirty feet below Exchange Street level.
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