Archaeologists excavating the historic Sheffield Castle site have uncovered rare 17th-century wooden stakes, believed to be ...

The abatises were found in front of the medieval gatehouse of Sheffield ... “To be able to hold the very wood to which the defenders of Sheffield Castle trusted their lives is extraordinary.” ...

The first surviving Civil War wooden stake defences to be found in Sheffield have been discovered by archaeologists in the moat of the city's former castle. The stakes were stuck into the ground to ...