1913 Ordnance Survey 1:25 inch plan of Piel Island
Plan of Piel Castle
From R. Newman, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol. XCVI
Snab Point.
Crossing the sands.
The wet bit!
View of Piel Island from the sands. The castle is on the right, the houses are on the left and the pub is in the middle.
The houses.
Drying off outside the pub.
Outer bailey wall from the north.
North-east tower of the outer bailey and the "chapel" - or is it a bakehouse?
Inner bailey and keep from the north-west.
Inside the inner bailey with the gatehouse on the left and the keep on the right.
Entrance to the keep.
Medieval sanitation! Garderobe, complete with porthole.