![Rochester Castle watergate, c.1380](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1717585472456-VRWUJXW15EAWVTL2MM3Z/9001%2B%2B2.jpg)
Rochester Castle watergate, c.1380
The north-west curtain wall of Rochester Castle forms a bastion, or projection, at the point where the medieval Rochester Bridge crossed the Medway. An excavation in 2017 revealed the watergate in the west face of the bastion for the first time in decades.
![Rochester Castle in the time of Odo and Gundulf, 1067-1088](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1717586074638-D87UNF6O5EC0T87KQ2LN/castle.jpg)
Rochester Castle in the time of Odo and Gundulf, 1067-1088
Archaeologist Alan Ward discusses what we know - or what little we know - about Rochester Castle in the time of Odo and Gundulf (1067-1088).
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