How Useful is the site-evidence and other sources for telling us about the Elizabethan Range at Carlisle Castle?
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How Useful is the site-evidence and other sources for telling us about the Elizabethan Range at Carlisle Castle? In 1990 a very detailed survey was conducted called 'Carlisle Castle: A survey and Documentary History' by MR McCarthy, HRT Summerson and RG Annis. This survey due to the amount of detail and depth of the survey is very reliable. This survey talks about the existence of an 'Elizabethan Range' which ran from the keep to Regimental Museum, formally the Medieval Palace and along the City-facing wall. On-site evidence shows a vertical line a rough stone-work down the corner of the Regimental Museum this rough stonework shows that something has been 'knocked off', that another wall had previously been joined on. This wall ran from the Medieval Palace to the Keep. Other on-site evidence is 4 blocked up fireplaces along the inside of the City-facing wall which would have been the back-wall of...

