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The gatehouse of Pevensey Castle, by Anthony Chapman, published 2007 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 145, article, pp.97-118) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15980] & The Keep [LIB/500363] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Excavations in 1993-95, undertaken by the Department of Archaeology of the University of Reading, discovered a sequence of rebuilding the east wall of the keep during the later Middle Ages. Alongside the excavations, the department also carried out fabric surveys of the Roman walls, the keep and the medieval walls of the inner bailey. Certain results of the keep survey and excavation were included in the 1999 English Heritage guidebook, notably reaffirmation of the homogeneous character of the keep inside the Roman wall (Allen & Al Shaikhley 1994). However, only a preliminary report on the gatehouse was produced from the survey of the medieval walls and this paper provides a revised summary of that work, with some observations on the subsequent structural development of the castle through the thirteenth century. There are documentary and architectural contexts for the construction of the lower storeys of the gatehouse during the reign of Richard I.

Turris de Pevenesel - another view, by Tony Chapman, published 2013 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 151, article) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18616] & The Keep [LIB/507730] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The 2011 publication of the report on the excavations in the 1990s at Pevensey Castle marks over a century of archaeological, architectural and documentary research. For the first time, the investigation around the keep and elsewhere on the site was carried out to modern standards of excavation, which produced evidence for a revised construction date of both the Roman fort and the medieval walls. In particular, the date of the keep is now placed around 1200. This article reappraises the archaeological interpretation of the trenches within the keep, and correlates it with the earlier investigation of the site by Harold Sands in 1910. The historical sources are also re-examined, to question the date and context of the keep reached in the recent report. As a result, an alternative, earlier, date for the great tower in the reign of Henry I is proposed, set against recent research on Romanesque great towers in England.