South Cerney Castle

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South Cerney Castle is a ruined castle in the village of South Cerney in the English county of Gloucestershire . Today only flat earthworks remain of the moth , which was built without royal permission in the middle of the 12th century, and are considered a scheduled monument .

description

Today only light remains of earthworks remain from the castle. However revealed excavations mid-1930s, a fountain having a square cross-section and some material that could be associated with the 16th and 17th centuries, z. B. also Heller from the reign of King Charles I. Later pottery from the 12th century was also found here.

history

A small Norman castle protecting the strategically important village of South Cerney on the River Churn has been identified by Bazeley and Kennen as the one that Miles de Gloucester built during the Anarchy , as other historians have confirmed. De Gloucester was captured by King Stephen's troops in 1139, but the records of this are unsecure and Renn believes that Ashton Keynes Castle would be more likely to be the site of these events, and King mentions that this castle often coincides with a castle in Cerne Abbas in Dorset or a lost castle in Calne , Wiltshire .

The further fate of the castle is not known.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Monument No. 216679 . Pastscape. Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
  2. ^ A b David J. Cathcart King: Castellarium anglicanum: An Index and Bibliography of the Castles in England, Wales and the Islands . Volume I: '' Anglesey - Montgomery ''. 1983, p. 181.
  3. ^ South Cerney Castle . Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
  4. ^ W. Bazeley: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . Issue 3 (1879-1879). P. 381.
  5. ^ F. Kennen: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . Issue 53 (1931). P. 55.
  6. ^ Knowles Rushford: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting Held at Cirencester in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . Issue 52 (1931). P. 55. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
  7. ^ David Walker: Gloucestershire Castles in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . No. 109 (1991). P. 15. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
  8. ^ DF Renn: Norman Castles in Britain . 1968. p. 314.
  9. ↑ Philip Davis: South Cerney Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer (September 26, 2015) Retrieved October 10, 2016.

literature

Richard Clake Sewell: Gesta Stephani, regis Anglorum et ducis Normannorum, incerto auctore sed contemporaneo, olim ex vetere codice ms epicopatus Laudunensis from Andrea Duchesne edita . Londini, Sumptibus societatis. Pp. 58-61.

Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 40.2 ″  N , 1 ° 56 ′ 0.1 ″  W.