England · Ruin
Old Sarum Castle
Old Sarum Castle is an 11th-century motte-and-bailey castle built within an older Iron Age hillfort at Old Sarum, Wiltshire. The castle was rebuilt in stone and later expanded with a royal palace, hall, and service buildings; today only earthworks and low stone foundations survive and the site is managed by English Heritage.
Its prime
1215
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 1215
The shape it held in its prime.
A circular motte-and-bailey plan on a raised earthen mound with a broad ditch surrounding the outer bailey; low, pale stone curtain and foundation walls outline buildings around the inner enclosure. The motte (central mound) bears the truncated stone base of a keep and adjacent rectangular foundation blocks of a great hall and service ranges in the southeast quadrant. An eastern approach with a gatehouse and causeway crosses the ditch; interiors are grassy and open atop the earthworks.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1215.
The record describes 9 distinct spots at Old Sarum Castle — including 3 interiors: the great hall (60-metre long room), sheriff's hall, kitchen and bakehouse range, quarters of eleanor of aquitaine (royal apartments). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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See Old Sarum Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1215 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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