Norwich Castle: A Journey Through Time!

What did the Castle look like in the 12th century? 🏰 As part of our major redevelopment we're reinstating the Norman layout inside the Keep. You'll be able to enter the Great Hall through the same elaborately decorated doorway that visitors to the Castle used 900 years ago! Video description: a slideshow of illustrations and 3D models reconstructing how Norwich Castle would have looked 900 years ago, and modern photographs of the Bigod Arch. #NorwichCastle #NorfolkMuseums #CastleReborn #Castle9

Discover the incredible stories of our county's men, women and children in 'Armistice: Legacy of the Great War in Norfolk' until 6 January 2019: http://bit.ly/2ICoHi9 See it here today from 1 - 4.30pm #ArmisticeNorfolk | Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery

The Norfolk coastline is home to giants of the past! Gigantic creatures like Mammoth, Giant Deer and Rhino lived here between 500,000 to over two million years ago. Norfolk at this time was covered in hills and valleys, gradually flattening as glacial ice moved through the landscape, and turning into a landscape more like the Norfolk Broads are today. Huge, exotic creatures roamed the Norfolk landscape - the Mundesley Femur (shown below) is probably the largest elephant bone ever found in the wo

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🔥🔥🔥1000 degrees 🔥🔥🔥 Blacksmith James Spedding of Holkham Forge recently sent us this behind-the-scenes video of a decorative braid he is making for one of the new sets of recreated Norman doors in Norwich Castle Keep. Using an oxypropane torch and tongs, James braids four pieces of iron as the temperature approaches 1,000 degrees! Designs are based on extant 12th-century ironwork on the door of Raveningham Church. This carefully researched historic recreation is made possible with The Nati