Magazine2000/Corfe Castle, Dorset. (S.W. England) / c0001 MAG2000 19/09/02 ...This drawing shows the typical design of a Norman castle in the Eleventh and Twelfth centuies, of which Corfe Castle was one of the strongest. It was ruined not by war but on Cromwell's orders after the Civil War, as "punishment" for resisting and surviving, his nine month siege. |