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- Pevensey_Castle abstract "Pevensey Castle is a medieval castle and former Roman Saxon Shore fort at Pevensey in the English county of East Sussex. The site is a Scheduled Monument in the care of English Heritage and is open to visitors. Built around 290 AD and known to the Romans as Anderitum, the fort appears to have been the base for a fleet called the Classis Anderidaensis. The reasons for its construction are unclear; long thought to have been part of a Roman defensive system to guard the British and Gallic coasts against Saxon pirates, it has more recently been suggested that Anderitum and the other Saxon Shore forts were built by a usurper in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to prevent Rome from reimposing its control over Britain.Anderitum fell into ruin following the end of the Roman occupation but was reoccupied in 1066 by the Normans, for whom it became a key strategic bulwark. A stone keep and fortification was built within the Roman walls and faced several sieges. Although its garrison was twice starved into surrender, it was never successfully stormed. The castle was occupied more or less continuously until the 16th century, apart from a possible break in the early 13th century when it was slighted. It had been abandoned again by the late 16th century and remained a crumbling, partly overgrown ruin until it was acquired by the state in 1925.Pevensey Castle was reoccupied between 1940 and 1945, during the Second World War, when it was garrisoned by units from the Home Guard, the British and Canadian armies and the United States Army Air Corps. Machine-gun posts were built into the Roman and Norman walls to control the flat land around Pevensey and guard against the threat of a German invasion. They were left in place after the war and can still be seen today.".
- Pevensey_Castle builder Carausius.
- Pevensey_Castle buildingEndDate "c. 290 AD".
- Pevensey_Castle height "9.5".
- Pevensey_Castle location East_Sussex.
- Pevensey_Castle location Pevensey.
- Pevensey_Castle location Pevensey_Castle__location__1.
- Pevensey_Castle thumbnail Pevensey_Castle_aerial_alt.jpg?width=300.
- Pevensey_Castle type Castle.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageExternalLink pevensey-castle.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageID "4262066".
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageLength "53912".
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageOutDegree "176".
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageRevisionID "691596271".
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Abulci.
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- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Anderitum.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Antiquarian.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Ballista.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Evesham.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_France.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Hastings.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Lewes.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Battlement.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Bayeux_Tapestry.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink British_Army.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Burgess_(title).
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_Army.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Carausius.
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- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Castles_in_Great_Britain_and_Ireland.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Catapult.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Category:Battles_involving_the_Normans.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Category:Castles_in_East_Sussex.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Category:English_Heritage_sites_in_East_Sussex.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Category:Norman_conquest_of_England.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ruins_in_East_Sussex.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Dawson.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Cissa_of_Sussex.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Classis_Britannica.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Colchester_Castle.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Commonwealth_of_England.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Constantius_Chlorus.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Curtain_wall_(fortification).
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Defensive_wall.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Demi-culverin.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Dendrochronology.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Domesday_Book.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Doncaster.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Duke_of_Normandy.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Dungeon.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Earl_of_Richmond.
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- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Edward_I_of_England.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Edward_of_Norwich,_2nd_Duke_of_York.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Eleanor_of_Provence.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Elizabeth_I_of_England.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Empress_Matilda.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink English_Heritage.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink First_Barons_War.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Foederati.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Gaul.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Gilbert_I_de_lAigle.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Gilbert_de_Clare,_1st_Earl_of_Pembroke.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Gildas.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Great_hall.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Hampshire.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Hastings.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Heckage.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Henry_III_of_England.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Henry_IV_of_England.
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- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Henry_V_of_England.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Home_Guard_(United_Kingdom).
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Honorius_(emperor).
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink House_of_Cavendish.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink House_of_Lancaster.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink House_of_Tudor.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Inner_bailey.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Isabella_of_France.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink James_I_of_Scotland.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Joan_of_Navarre,_Queen_of_England.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink John,_King_of_England.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink John_of_Gaunt.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Jutes.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Keep.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Lancaster,_Lancashire.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Land_reclamation.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Late_Antiquity.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Latin.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Latrine.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Limitanei.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink List_of_castles_in_England.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink London_Wall.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Louis_VIII_of_France.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Lutetia.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Magnentius.
- Pevensey_Castle wikiPageWikiLink Manchester.