I'm afraid I might bore everyone with my collection of Bamburgh photos before I finish Built on a basalt outcrop, the location was previously home to a fort of the native Welsh Britons known as Din Guarie and may have been the capital of the Welsh British kingdom of the region ( the "Hen Ogledd") from the realm's foundation in c.420 until 547, the year of the first written reference to the castle. In that year the citadel was captured by the Anglo-Saxon ruler Ida of Bernicia (Beornice) and…
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