Notes on the reconstruction of Scarborough Keep
On Castle Hill at Scarborough lie the ruins of a Norman Keep and various walls, together with a hall and residence built by King John (forget what ever you have heard about John, the story is much more complicated). The Keep is built in a different position to the ill-fated Roman Signal Tower - and the positioning of the Keep sends a couple of clear messages about what this fortification was about, and echoes some of the earlier defeats at this location. Surprisingly, until recently, the Keep, even in ruinous form, was still protected by Defense Regulations that prohibited measuring the height or other features of the Keep - Scarborough had been the subject of a wartime bombing attack. A model of the Keep was one of the first 3D assets we built when starting the task of rebuilding the medieval town of Scarborough (details are elsewhere in this blog - but note that basic information about the dimensions of the Keep were hard to come by). More recently, a fri...
