SHREWSBURY, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Shropshire Star, traces of a road that ran into the inner bailey of Shrewsbury Castle have been discovered by a team of researchers led by archaeologist Nigel Baker. The walls of the castle, which was built in England’s West Midlands in the eleventh century, originally surrounded the town of Shrewsbury. “What is exciting is that the geophysics that we had done at the beginning was half right and half wrong,” Baker said. The team members thought the band of hard resistance material detected during the geophysical survey might have been the ruin of a building, but in fact it was a road surface. Part of the road had been cut away in the past, perhaps to plant trees, he added. The recent excavation also uncovered a wine bottle’s glass seal bearing the arms of the Corbett family, who were associated with Shrewsbury Castle in the sixteenth century. “It’s part of the domestic rubbish which has been floating around in the topsoil,” Baker explained. For more on medieval castles, go to "Letter from England: Inside the Anarchy."
