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VI.—Corfe Castle: its history, construction, and present condition

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Corfe Castle is situated in the centre of the Isle of Purbeck, about ten miles SW. of Bournemouth, and midway between Wareham and Swanage. The Isle of Purbeck is bounded on the north by Poole Harbour and the river Frome, on the west by the stream called Luckford Lake, and on the south and east by the English Channel. It is bisected by a range of chalk hills which stretch across the isle from east to west and attain a height at one point of over 600 ft. In the middle of the range is a great gap forming the natural pass from the northern portion of the island to the coasts of the southern portion and called by the Anglo-Saxons Corvensgeat or Corfe-Gate. Commanding this pass, and set in the midst of it, is a precipitous hill which rises to a height of about 200 ft. and is almost surrounded at its foot by streams forming a natural moat. Upon this hill the castle of Corfe is built (figs. 1, 2, 3).

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Archaeologia , Volume 79 , 1929, pp. 85 - 102
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1929

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page 86 note 2 The Chronicle of Benedict of Peterborough. Ed. Stubbs, Will., 1867, vol. i, p. 329 Google Scholar .

page 88 note 1 Patent Roll, 16 John 1215, memb. 1. Rot. Lit. Pat. 138 b.

page 88 note 2 Close Rol l, 16 John 1214, memb. 15. Rot. Lit. Claus. 178b. This entry is repeated in 16 John, memb. 10. Rot. Lit. Claus. 185.

page 90 note 1 Close Roll, 16 John 1215. Rot. Lit. Claus. 200 b.

page 90 note 2 Close Roll, 6 July, 15 John 1213, memb. 9. Rot. Lit. Claus. 144.

page 90 note 3 Ibid., 5 Aug. 1213, memb. 6. Rot. Lit. Claus. 150.

page 91 note 1 Pipe Roll, 20 Hen. III. E. 372, no. 80, memb. 16.

page 91 note 2 Liberate Roll, 41 Hen. Ill, memb. 11, no. 37.

page 91 note 3 Exchequer Accounts Various, 41 Ed. Ill, 461/5, memb. 4.

page 91 note 4 Ibid., 13-14 Ed. III. E. 101, 460/27, memb. 3.

page 92 note 1 Liberate Roll, 2 April, 54 Hen. Ill, 46, memb. 7.

page 92 note 2 Exchequer Accounts Various, 8-9 Ed. I, E. 101, 460/27.

page 92 note 3 Ibid., 51 Ed. Ill, 1376-7, 461, no. 7.

page 92 note 4 Ibid., 1-3 Richard II, 461, no. 9.

page 94 note 1 History and Description of Corfe Castle, by Bond, Thomas, B.A., Lond., 1883, p. 60 Google Scholar .

page 97 note 1 Exchequer Accounts Various, 8-9 Ed. I, E. 101,460/27.

page 102 note 1 Liberate Roll, 23 Hen. Ill, memb. 20. The mandate for this fragment occurs twice on the Roll under the same date and place; first in memb. 21, where the obscure word colehicium is rendered collehisium, and again here, where the scribe wrote part of the word, viz. collehis, crossed this out and rendered it colehicium.

page 102 note 2 Exchequer Accounts Various, 10 Ed. I, 460/27, memb. 2.