Norwich Castle

I took Sarah and Jesse to the Norwich Castle this morning while John waited for the plumber. The plumber never came (bummer) and so John met us for the battlements tour and walking around town.

This evening we tried out the Romans game John and I bought at Hadrian's Wall. We discovered that the "long" version of the game is basically never ending, but we had fun playing it. The spirit of Julius Caesar was truly with me!

Norwich Castle

When I was at Ancient House on Thursday I learned that the Norwich Castle has a Boudicea display so I asked John if we could visit the castle this weekend. We rode our bikes into the city where we had lunch before walking to the castle. In addition to the multiple collections that make up their museum they have battlements and dungeon tours. I wanted to see the dungeon and John wanted to see the battlements, so we did both.

From the roof of the castle keep we looked out over Norwich. We learned that what is now the roof of the Castle Mall was a field where people stood to watch hangings, and the weathervane cock on the top of the cathedral is the size of a cow.

On the dungeon tour we learned that nagging was once considered a crime (in America too!), and apparently one only women could commit. They were punished with a device that went around the head and held a piece of metal over the tongue.

There we so many displays in the museum that we couldn't see them all today, but we did look in on Boudicea. I love the torcs. I will have to get one if I end up putting together a Boudicea costume.