Jonathan Clark is a buildings archaeologist and architectural historian who has spent much of his career researching, recording and analysing medieval castles, houses and monasteries across the British Isles. He has been researching Lincoln Castle for over 20 years and is Lincoln Cathedral Archaeologist. Justin Garner-Lahire is the managing director at FAS Heritage, an archaeological research practice founded in 1993. He has excavated extensively on medieval sites in England and Scotland, having led major excavations at Castle Sinclair Girnigoe, Lincoln Castle and Somerton Castle. Cecily Spall is a senior archaeological researcher in FAS Heritage who has excavated, studied and published numerous medieval stratified sequences in Britain, famously at Portmahomack, Easter Ross where she was the leading co-director. Nicola Toop studied the early medieval Irish Sea region for her PhD and is a long-term researcher at FAS Heritage involved in archaeological and documentary research at castles and monasteries, such as Lincoln Castle and Bolton Abbey.

[T]he volume provides a much needed and significant addition to the panoply of published British urban castles (including Oxford and Norwich) and is a fine example of its type.

• List of illustrations List of tables Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Picture credits 1. The campaign to reveal Lincoln Castle2. The Roman fortress and colonia 3. The city beneath the castle 4. The early castle and the Lucy Tower 5. The castle gates and walls 6. The Observatory Tower 7. Cobb Hall and the last flowering of the medieval castle 8. Lincoln Castle recreated 9. Legacy Digest of evidence BibliographyIndex