Although Gatehouse is intended as a gazetteer and bibliography of the medieval castles, fortifications and palaces of England, Wales and the Islands it does have a few other resources which will, hopefully, be of interest. These mainly derive from the author's own use of the data found during the years of development of the databases on which the site is based.
Historical Resources
These are transcriptions, analysis and some other comments about some primary historical sources relevant to castle studies.- A comprehensive list of Licences to Crenellate of England and Wales, with details of each licence.
- Some statistical analysis of the data in the list - mainly about the types of building.
- Further analysis and comment - mainly about the people granted licences.
- Murage; Primary source data for royal support for town defences in all the realms of the medieval English Crown in the form of 4 lists linked to 2000+ pages of details.
- Grants of murage
- Grants of exemption from murage
- Petitions for grants of murage
- Evidence regarding murage such as collection, embezzlement and auditing
- Northumberland Fortifications; Some late medieval lists of fortifications in Northumberland are transcribed and detailed.
- The Aglionby Platt; A 1590 map of the strong houses of the West March of Scotland.
Data
Some information, in various forms, relating to castle studies, mainly statistical.- Statistics; Some simple statistics such as number and county density of castles etc.
- Distribution maps.
- Classification of fortification types;
- Location Information; This includes comments of map references, county boundary changes and placenames.
- Heritage at Risk Registers. A listing of the sites recorded in Gatehouse which are, or have been, on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Registers.
Essays
A few essays on various aspects of castle studies. The author is not someone who feels a need to reinvent the wheel and these essays are either about subjects rarely covered or have a different perspective from the usual writings.
- Defining 'the Castle'; an essay on what castles are and something on their development.
- Minor Castles; a short essay on minor timber castles and the knights who lived in them.
- Crenellating the Ego; an introductory essay on the psychological factors affecting castle forms and the biases in castle studies.
- Mounds of Earth; Some short comments on mounds of earth which may, or may not be, castles.
- Murage: An Introduction; An essay based on the research done with regard to the murage sources above.