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A photograph of four workers in orange high vis and hard hats excavating the Sheffield Castle dig site. There are boards and scaffolding surrounding the site and various stone work paths that the workers are carefully working around. A photograph of four workers in orange high vis and hard hats excavating the Sheffield Castle dig site. There are boards and scaffolding surrounding the site and various stone work paths that the workers are carefully working around.

Image: Sheffield Castle excavation site, Wessex Archaeology

Image: Sheffield Castle excavation site, Wessex Archaeology

Lunchtime Talk: Interpretations of Sheffield Castle

Wed 11 March 2026 , 1pm-1:45pm

Weston Park Museum

Find out about the fascinating history of this important medieval castle site. 

 

Following major excavations at Sheffield Castle, Ashley Tuck of Wessex Archaeology presents a look at the changing ways in which the castle has been viewed following its ‘slighting’, when it was partially demolished at the end of the English Civil War. 

 

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