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The Building of Orford Castle: a Translation from the Pipe Rolls, 1163-78.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
by Valerie Potter, Margaret Poulter and Jane Allen (Orford: Orford Museum, 2002; pp. xiv + 62. 10.50 [pounds sterling]).
In presenting this material, especially for a non-professional audience, Valerie Potter, Margaret Poulter and Jane Allen have performed a useful service. This is, not least, that in setting out the evidence for Henry II's heavy expenditure on this castle, they lead one to speculate on the early medieval defence of East Anglia. Why was it that, until Orford Castle was built, the only major royal castle was at Norwich? Like nearly all Norman royal castles it was at a shire town and apparently intended for internal …
