Biggleswade Castle

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Biggleswade Castle is an abandoned castle in the town of Biggleswade in the English county of Bedfordshire .

The existence of this castle was discovered in 1954 on aerial photographs showing the remains of a moth with a double moat and a courtyard with a single moat.

Excavations were carried out there in 1962 and 1968. Remnants of wooden buildings and earthenware were discovered .

Today only vegetation features and light earthworks are recognizable. The site is a Scheduled Monument .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Monument No. 362741 . Historic England. Pastscape. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c Monument No. 362741, Central Bedfordshire - Excavation & Air Photograph Interpretation . Historic England. Pastscape. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  3. ↑ Why Can We Still See Marks of Sites Lost Thousands of Years ago? - Ringwork-and-bailey castle, ring ditch and enclosures West of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire . Historic England, January 23, 2015. ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 14, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / historicengland.org.uk

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  • Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Book of Castles , David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3

Coordinates: 52 ° 5 ′ 11.1 ″  N , 0 ° 16 ′ 22.4 ″  W.