Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire. Report on Geophysical Surveys, June and July 2004.
Author(s): Paul Linford, Neil Linford, Louise Martin
As part of an English Heritage project to investigate, and possibly reconstruct, the original Elizabethan garden at Kenilworth Castle, geophysical surveys were carried out within the castle grounds focussing on the area to the north of the keep. The surveys formed the initial phase of a multidisciplinary investigation and were intended provide information to guide trial excavation trenches. Although data collection was hampered by the presence of an existing formal garden on the site, established in the 1970s, it was possible to identify a number of anomalies that were later investigated and confirmed by excavation. Further geophysical surveys were conducted in other areas of the castle and on the Pleasance, an artificial earthwork platform 1km west of the castle used as a pleasure ground for feasting during the late medieval period. Anomalies likely to indicate the presence of structural remains were detected in both locations and it has thus been possible to identify the probable original and final sites of buildings that Henry VIII is recorded to have ordered to be removed from the Pleasance and reconstructed within the castle.
- Report Number:
- 29/2005
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 32
- Keywords:
- Earth Resistance Electromagnetic Geophysical Survey Magnetometer
