Sheffield Castle’s newly revealed Civil War defenses have been discovered by Wessex Archaeology between 2020 and 2024, these 17th-century fortifications in northern England illuminate a turbulent past. Sheffield Castle, once a medieval stronghold, became a battleground during the English Civil War (1642–1651). Royalists held it until Parliamentarians seized and razed it in 1644, leaving ruins beneath modern Sheffield. Wessex Archaeology’s recent digs, part of the Castlegate regeneration project, uncovered remnants of the castle’s defenses, transformed after the war to guard against rebellion. These findings resurrect a site pivotal to England’s fractured history, where power shifted amid cannon fire. Wessex Archaeology’s…