Mystery surrounds a medieval castle hailed as the very birthplace of Sheffield, with no surviving paintings or pictures today to show what it once would have looked like.
But, with excavations underway, its secrets are tantalisingly revealed. A drawbridge pier, a moat, and now new interior walls, with hints at remains of an even earlier building. In a city known for its industrial heritage and rightly famous for its cutlery and steel, say archaeologists, this adds a new layer of richness to Sheffield's long history. Ashley Tuck, archaeologist at Wessex Archaeology, said: 'We are making new discoveries about the very story and identity of Sheffield.
Among the remains unearthed is a drawbridge pier - a dressed sandstone platform on which the drawbridge to the castle would have set down. Then a series of internal castle walls measuring up to 1.5m thick. And as archaeologists excavated a six-metre-deep moat, new insights are revealed into even older remains, suggesting an earlier castle may once have stood on this site. And within the moat, a copper-alloy counter called a Jetton that would have been used a bit like money.
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