Shamlord Peel was a timber stockade, ordered to be built after 1339 to protect the port of Cowes on the Isle of Wight. The Crown instructed the work to be undertaken after storms that year blew down many oak trees on the island, providing an immediate source of raw materials, but it is unclear exactly where it was constructed. The historian Rob Martin suggests it was was built in East Cowes, close to the mouth of the Medina River. The site has since been lost.
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