Hedingham Castle Historic Building Recording

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Place Services undertook a Historic Building Recording of various structural elements at Hedingham Castle prior to a programme of repair and consolidation works.

The elements that were recorded include brick buttresses of the Tudor bridge, windows, window alcoves and wall-heads of the Norman keep, and the remains of the Tudor brick tower recently uncovered to the south-west of the ringwork.

The building recording was required as a condition of Scheduled Monument Consent and provides an archive record of the building elements prior to the repairs being undertaken. As well as conventional recording techniques a programme of photogrammetry was undertaken on various elements of the castle.

The programme of work undertaken related to several structural elements and historic periods of Hedingham Castle. Each of these investigations has furthered our knowledge of the castle’s history, and some research questions have been raised that could be answered by any future archaeological work.