2-649-783 - Historic England/Heritage Images

Cynric fighting the Britons at Old Sarum, 552 AD, (c1990-2010). Cynric of Wessex fighting the Britons at Searobyrg (Old Sarum). Reconstruction drawing. Old Sarum, the earliest settlement of Salisbury in England. An Iron Age hillfort was erected around 400 BC. The Saxons took the British fort in the 6th century. The Normans constructed a motte and bailey castle in 11th century. ln the early 13th century, the buildings of Old Sarum were dismantled for stone and the old town dwindled.