The Siege of Rochester Castle in 1215 was one of the defining military episodes of King John's reign. A rebel baron garrison held Rochester against John's royal army for seven weeks — an extraordinary resistance. John's engineers undermined the south tower using the fat from forty pigs to fuel the fire; the tower collapsed. The tenacity of both sides showed how serious the baronial revolt against John had become, just months after Magna Carta.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
Research a location near Kent