Site Represents a site. Prim Media 32 Wiki A link to a wiki entry about this item. https://medievalperth.org/wiki/index.php/Cromwell_in_Perth Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building Condition 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cromwell in Perth Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived reconsites Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource eulac3d Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 12 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.39152548715628,-3.4274286031723027; Description An account of the resource Had you come here in the 1650s, you would be standing right in the middle of a magnificent military citadel, about 244m square, with lots of activities and stored goods. The citadel was built here after Oliver Cromwell’s siege of Perth and was not popular. A lot of the building material was taken from inhabited buildings, graveyards and walls in town, including the Mercat Cross, and the ramparts were constructed from the turf of the Inches, the communal grazing, leisure and linen drying ground for the city. Today, you cannot see any traces of the citadel above ground as it was demolished in stages after the Restoration of the Crown in 1660. It was re-occupied during the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745. But why had Cromwell built the citadel in the first place? Perth was a strategically important point for conquering the country. It was the lowest crossing point of the River Tay, the furthest inland harbour, and important roads from North, West and South met here. If you controlled Perth, you could influence the rest of the country. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 19/03/2021 Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. Cromwell in Perth Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT