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Motte and bailey castles, Stone keep castles and Concentric castles
A castles main defense were it's high stone walls and sometimes a mote, a channel of water
yes they do it is after the bailey and under the drawbridge it is mainly filed with water
Mote is not an acronym, it is the name of one of the Lab's most important benefactors, Mr. William R. Mote.
Castles usually have a mote, towers, and long halls. They also have special defenses inside and outside of the structure.
they were not that easy to defend, as they were made of wood and straw so they could be set alight easily.
Ebenezer James Balley has written: 'John Whitgift'
Probably the only rooms almost every castle had were armories, barracks, and food storage rooms, because castles were mostly defensive places where the garrisons could stay in times of trouble. Some of the smaller castles were barely more than a single turret. Larger castles had provision for members of nobility to stay with their families, and in some of these there were great halls, chapels, and so on.
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Castles were built for protection of people and animals. They began as wooden compounds called " mote and Bailey." The mote was a hill and the Bailey part was the buildings. The first ones were wooden and it wasn't until gunpowder came along they became stone. The existing mote and Bailey often built a stone face in front of the wooden walls so when an attacker wanted to take the castle he thought it was stone. The castle also provided the owner with a powerful reputation in the lands he controlled.
castles were important in the middle ages mainly in 1066 and onwards
}Mote and bailey castles appeared in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066. Mote and bailey castles were a common feature in England by the death of William the Conqueror in 1087. Their construction was the start of what was to become a massive castle building programme in England and Wales.}A few English timber Motte and Bailey style Norman castles had been constructed by Normans who had been invited to England by King Edward the Confessor, prior to the Norman invasion in 1066. However, the vast number of Norman castles were built following the Battle of Hastings and the Norman conquest. The Normans were great builders of castles and fully appreciated the great advantages that a castle would give to a fighting force. Stone Castles took too long to build so Duke William laid plans to build Norman Timber Castles when he mounted his invasion.