King Charles's Castle
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Q6411315
Q6411315
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An error occurred during query execution: HTTP Error: 400 Response: SPARQL-QUERY: queryStr= SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?file ?date ?label ?qualityLabel ?latitude ?longitude ?type ?subtype ?source WHERE { SERVICE wikibase:label {bd:serviceParam wikibase:language 'en'} { SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?file ?date ?label ?quality ?latitude ?longitude ?type ?subtype ?source WHERE { { SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?date ?file ?type ?subtype ?source (COALESCE(?label1,?label2) AS ?label) (SAMPLE (COALESCE(?latitude1,?latitude2)) AS ?latitude) (SAMPLE (COALESCE(?longitude1,?longitude2)) AS ?longitude) (SAMPLE(?qualitylist) AS ?quality) WHERE { {?item wdt:P180 wd:Q6411315} UNION {SERVICE wikibase:mwapi{ bd:serviceParam wikibase:api 'Generator' . bd:serviceParam wikibase:endpoint 'commons.wikimedia.org' . bd:serviceParam mwapi:gcmtitle 'Category:King Charles's Castle' . bd:serviceParam mwapi:generator 'categorymembers' . bd:serviceParam mwapi:gcmtype 'file' . bd:serviceParam mwapi:gcmlimit 'max' . ?title wikibase:apiOutput mwapi:title . ?pageid wikibase:apiOutput '@pageid' . } BIND (URI(CONCAT('https://commons.wikimedia.org/entity/M', ?pageid)) AS ?item) } OPTIONAL {?item rdfs:label ?label1 FILTER(LANG(?label1) = 'en')} ?item schema:url ?url. BIND (CONCAT('File:',wikibase:decodeUri(substr(str(?url),52))) AS ?file) BIND(REPLACE(REPLACE(?file, '^File:', ), '.[^.]*$', ) AS ?label2) OPTIONAL {?item wdt:P571 ?date} OPTIONAL {?item wdt:P6731 ?qualitylist} OPTIONAL { ?item p:P1259 ?position1. ?position1 psv:P1259/wikibase:geoLatitude ?latitude1a. ?position1 psv:P1259/wikibase:geoLongitude ?longitude1a. BIND(STR(?latitude1a) AS ?latitude1) BIND(STR(?longitude1a) AS ?longitude1) } OPTIONAL { ?item p:P9149 ?position2. ?position2 psv:P9149/wikibase:geoLatitude ?latitude2a. ?position2 psv:P9149/wikibase:geoLongitude ?longitude2a. BIND(STR(?latitude2a) AS ?latitude2) BIND(STR(?longitude2a) AS ?longitude2) } BIND(CONCAT('commons') AS ?type) BIND(CONCAT('image') AS ?subtype) BIND(CONCAT('Commons') AS ?source) FILTER ( STRENDS(LCASE(STR(?file)), '.jpg') || STRENDS(LCASE(STR(?file)), '.jpeg') ) } GROUP BY ?item ?date ?file ?label1 ?label2 ?latitude1 ?latitude2 ?longitude1 ?longitude2 ?type ?subtype ?source } } ORDER BY DESC(?quality) ASC(?date) LIMIT 10 } } GROUP BY ?item ?file ?date ?label ?qualityLabel ?latitude ?longitude ?type ?subtype ?source ORDER BY ASC(?date) java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.openrdf.query.MalformedQueryException: Lexical error at line 16, column 70. Encountered: " " (32), after : "s" at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:122) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:206) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.BigdataServlet.submitApiTask(BigdataServlet.java:292) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.QueryServlet.doSparqlQuery(QueryServlet.java:678) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.QueryServlet.doPost(QueryServlet.java:275) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.RESTServlet.doPost(RESTServlet.java:269) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.MultiTenancyServlet.doPost(MultiTenancyServlet.java:195) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:865) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1655) at org.wikidata.query.rdf.blazegraph.throttling.ThrottlingFilter.doFilter(ThrottlingFilter.java:322) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1642) at org.wikidata.query.rdf.blazegraph.throttling.SystemOverloadFilter.doFilter(SystemOverloadFilter.java:84) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1642) at ch.qos.logback.classic.helpers.MDCInsertingServletFilter.doFilter(MDCInsertingServletFilter.java:50) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1642) at org.wikidata.query.rdf.blazegraph.filters.QueryEventSenderFilter.doFilter(QueryEventSenderFilter.java:125) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1642) at org.wikidata.query.rdf.blazegraph.filters.ClientIPFilter.doFilter(ClientIPFilter.java:43) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1642) at org.wikidata.query.rdf.blazegraph.filters.JWTIdentityFilter.doFilter(JWTIdentityFilter.java:66) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1642) at org.wikidata.query.rdf.blazegraph.filters.RealAgentFilter.doFilter(RealAgentFilter.java:33) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1642) at org.wikidata.query.rdf.blazegraph.filters.RequestConcurrencyFilter.doFilter(RequestConcurrencyFilter.java:50) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1634) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:533) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:146) at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:548) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:257) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:1595) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:255) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1340) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:203) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:473) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:1564) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:201) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1242) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:144) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:220) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:126) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:503) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:364) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:260) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:305) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:103) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ChannelEndPoint$2.run(ChannelEndPoint.java:118) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.runTask(EatWhatYouKill.java:333) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.doProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:310) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.tryProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:168) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.run(EatWhatYouKill.java:126) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ReservedThreadExecutor$ReservedThread.run(ReservedThreadExecutor.java:366) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:765) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$2.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:683) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:750) Caused by: org.openrdf.query.MalformedQueryException: Lexical error at line 16, column 70. Encountered: " " (32), after : "s" at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.Bigdata2ASTSPARQLParser.parseQuery2(Bigdata2ASTSPARQLParser.java:404) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.QueryServlet$SparqlQueryTask.call(QueryServlet.java:741) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.QueryServlet$SparqlQueryTask.call(QueryServlet.java:695) at com.bigdata.rdf.task.ApiTaskForIndexManager.call(ApiTaskForIndexManager.java:68) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) ... 1 more Caused by: com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line 16, column 70. Encountered: " " (32), after : "s" at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilderTokenManager.getNextToken(SyntaxTreeBuilderTokenManager.java:3994) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.jj_ntk(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:9637) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.RDFLiteral(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:7189) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GraphTerm(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:3893) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.VarOrTermOrTRefP(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:8714) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GraphNodePath(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:3786) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.ObjectPath(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:3467) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.ObjectListPath(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:3044) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.PropertyListPath(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2992) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.TriplesSameSubjectPath(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2919) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.TriplesBlock(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2321) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.BasicGraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2097) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2034) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GroupGraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1969) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.ServiceGraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2534) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GraphPatternNotTriples(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2370) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2047) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GroupGraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1969) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GroupOrUnionGraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2451) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GroupOrUnionGraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2459) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GraphPatternNotTriples(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2361) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2047) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GroupGraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1969) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.WhereClause(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1013) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.SubSelect(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:416) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GroupGraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1965) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GroupOrUnionGraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2451) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GraphPatternNotTriples(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2361) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2047) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GroupGraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1969) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.WhereClause(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1013) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.SubSelect(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:416) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GroupGraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1965) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GroupOrUnionGraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2451) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GraphPatternNotTriples(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2361) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2047) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:2056) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.GroupGraphPattern(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1969) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.WhereClause(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:1013) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.SelectQuery(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:377) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.Query(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:328) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.QueryContainer(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:216) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.ast.SyntaxTreeBuilder.parseQuery(SyntaxTreeBuilder.java:32) at com.bigdata.rdf.sail.sparql.Bigdata2ASTSPARQLParser.parseQuery2(Bigdata2ASTSPARQLParser.java:336) ... 7 more
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King Charles's Castle is a ruined artillery fort overlooking New Grimsby harbour on the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly. Built between 1548 and 1551 to protect the islands from French attack, it would have held a battery of guns and an accompanying garrison, designed to prevent enemy vessels from entering the harbour. The castle is polygonal in design, constructed from granite stone, with the gun battery at the front, and a dining room, kitchen and living accommodation at the rear. An additional defensive earthwork was constructed around it during the 17th century. The design of the castle is unusual for the period, and is only seen elsewhere in blockhouses along the River Thames.
Website,
Wikimedia, Wikidata
King Charles' Castle; King Charles' Castle mid-16th century artillery castle and Civil War earthen artillery defence on western Castle Down, Tresco
United Kingdom,
- Gatehouse Gazetteer page@
- Historic England research records page@
Location: 49.9636, -6.3486, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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2 places
- King Charles's Castle, Tresco, Scilly - article by Trevor J. Miles & Andrew Saunders published January 1970 in Post-Medieval Archaeology
| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| link | page | Gatehouse Gazetteer page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | Historic England research records page@ | Wikidata | ||
| site | castle | King Charles's Castle | castle | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | 1962 | Isles of Scilly Museum | museum, independent museum | Wikidata |



