Features at Pontefract Castle

Explore the open archaeological data from our digs at Pontefract Castle

Basic Information

  • Modern Pit

Contexts

  • Context: PON_1037
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    • modern pit with brick
    • Indie Jago
    • 17-10-2019
  • Context: PON_1042
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    • Fill of modern pit [1037]
    • Indie Jago
    • 18-10-2019

Narrative

    • F113 was as long as the wall was wide and had been backfilled with mixed sandstone and 18th or 19th century CBM rubble. Sherds of 17th and 18th century pottery also recovered from the fill indicate that the pit was most likely created in the 18th century.
      • Indie Jago
    • 27-4-2021

Dating Narrative

    • Deconstruction of the gatehouse (mid 17th to mid 19th century)
      • Indie Jago
    • 27-4-2021

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