Previous discoveries at Sheffield Castle include a “hidey-hole” left behind by a steelworker in a cellar as well as medieval tokens and newly discovered castle walls as the site “keeps revealing its ...

Archaeologists excavating the historic Sheffield Castle site have uncovered rare 17th-century wooden stakes, believed to be defenses from the English Civil War, in the castle's ancient moat.

Battles took place between 1642 and 1651, and Sheffield Castle prepared its walls to defend ... “So often we are told about civil war defenses like abatises being used at historical properties ...