High Middle Ages · Europe · Technology
1078
White Tower of London begun
1078
On a site William the Conqueror had chosen at the southeastern corner of the old Roman walls, the Norman master mason Gundulf laid the foundations of a massive stone donjon. Four stories of Caen limestone would rise over the next two decades, dominating the Thames and cowing the city beneath.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.