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In 1644, these defenses failed to save Sheffield Castle
Parliamentarian forces besieged the Royalist-held Sheffield Castle, capturing it after a ten-day siege in August 1644. The castle was subsequently demolished by a motion in the House of Commons to ...
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City's surviving Civil War stake defences revealed
The wooden stakes were discovered in the moat of Sheffield's former castle The first surviving Civil War wooden stake defences to be found in the UK have been discovered by archaeologists in the ...