The History menu gives background information on accepted views of the castles’ origins prior to the start of the project and highlights those which needed to be reassessed by our research.
The menu also provides a summary of the results obtained by the project and a detailed history of Longtown and its castles, organised into the separate time periods shown below:
Prehistoric
Romans
Early Welsh and Anglo-Saxons
The Normans
The New Castle and Borough
Other History Topics
The Marches
Dating the Stone Castle
Domesday and Ewyas Lacy
The Mysteries of Ponthendre
Walterstone Castle