A detail of the doorway arch of the gatehouse
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The view looks up one jamb of the gateway at Rougemont Castle and shows its two orders of masonry. The capitals are of simple cushion form a type which was introduced at the Norman conquest, and so offers a contrast with the Anglo-Saxon features seen elsewhere in the tower. These capitals are of considerable interest, since their context, immediately after the siege of 1068-9, makes them amongst the earliest examples in Norman England.
In the later middle ages this doorway was walled up and a new entrance to the castle formed to its side.
Acknowledgments: Exeter Archaeology