The Lucy Tower is a polygonal keep, a stone wall surrounding open space at the top of a mound. Shell keeps are relatively early transitional stage from a wooden palisade, and this fits with the latest thinking that the Lucy Tower’s mound is the original Norman one, set in a dominant position on the cliff-edge [...]
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Lincoln Castle
Lincoln Castle is unusual in having two keeps and a complete curtain wall,
and its highly strategic position has given it a continuing historical importance. The site of battles and sieges and some complicated medieval wheeling and dealing, it is also a major centre of administration and justice, containing a former prison building and a working [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 16th 2015
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Exchequer Gate
Located at the cathedral end of Castle Hill, this is where tenants who rented property from the church came to pay their rents. A chequered cloth was used to aide the counting of the rent monies, and it is from the alternating black and white pattern of the cloth that we get the word ‘Exchequer’. [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 15th 2015
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Priory Gate
A very short distance from the east end of Lincoln Cathedral stands Priory Gate, which marks the location of one of the old medieval gates that gave access to the cathedral close. The current gateway, surmounted with battlements as if it still served a defensive purpose, straddles the north end of Pottergate.
It is a Victorian [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 14th 2015
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Newport Arch
This arch, built in the 3rd century AD, is the most famous and best preserved of all Lincoln’s Roman monuments. Through this gate legions left the upper city to begin their march north to York along Ermine Street. You can get a better idea of the level of the Roman road by looking at the [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 13th 2015
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Lincoln – Day Four…
…Easter Monday
For the second day running breakfast was not being served in the Garden room but in the same room as the previous day. The experience was a lot less chaotic but when my scrambled eggs turned up they were rather overcooked. After breakfast we checked out of the hotel and put our cases in [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Apr 11th 2015
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Lincoln – Day Three…
…Easter Day
I was awoken by the sound of crockery crashing to the floor in the corridor outside the room. I dismissed that idea and decided the staff were being noisy tidying up the crockery trolley I had seen on the landing the previous evening. I went back to sleep and the next sound I heard [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 10th 2015
