Castles

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William the Conqueror from Normandy invaded Britain and became king, Normans built many motte and bailey castles as well as the infamous Tower of London. The were originally from Normandy, the area just before Brittany, the panhandle on the northern coast, and im sure they built castles there.

Windsor Castle did have a ditch (moat) up until Charles II had it filled in in the 1700s.The moat was never filled with water though, as the castle is built upon chalk. Any water would have sunk straight through.

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Personally I would make it out of card board. It could include round towers which could be made out of toilet roll. REMEMBER: A concentric castle needs an outer wall and the castle goes in the middle. The outer wall is to give the castle more protection. Try not to make it a fairy-tale castle and more of a historic castle made out of stone.

When it was besieged. Then, the regular occupants (the castle's lord and his family and servants) would get company from all the lord's knights and soldiers and their servants, sometimes families and other hangers-on.

There were various castle weaknesses. It depends what castle type you are talking about. Wooden castles were used, but had the obvious downfall of no fire resistance, so stone was used instead. Then, because the corners of their square castles were the weakest parts, the builders made circular castles.

It is called a Great Hall.

An oubliette is a dungeon cell accessible only through a trap door in the ceiling. The word is from the French verb oublier "to forget."

There are many more than five castles in France. Castles in France include Sully Castle, Puymartin Castle, and Saumur Castle. Vincennes Castle and La Roche Guyon Castle are two other castles that are found in France.

I living in Caerphilly visit, because I really find it intresting to think that this was actually there 100 years ago, and also to find out a bit about the history of the castle that can be very intresting. There is a story and a myth about a ghost spirt known as the green lady. The story says that gilburt decler who was a Norman married a nother french women who evenchly went back to France and then dies of a broken heart because her loved one was killed by gilburt declar. The myth does sound a bit egsagerated but gilburt declar was real. The castle is also the second biggest in great Britain, and is the biggest of it's kind as well.

There were several type of materials that wee used to construct Neuschwanstein Castle. The entire foundation was made from cement. The walls of the castle were built using brick and limestone.

It allows for quick building. It takes a long time to build a stone castle. In those pre-gunpowder days, wood was fairly resistant to most forms of attack. All you needed was a good watchguard and a supply of water in case the eneny tried to burn the place down. Otherwise they had to assault the place with ladders and battering rams.

Warwick castle is 2859km wide and 678km high

Hehe, he's just kiddin'.

You can measure it yourself using, e.g. Google Earth by using the measure tool.

It should be no more than 0,7 x 0,3 mile.

A castle that has defense and can be protected from attack.

150 feet because there tall, though.

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When moats were in style, during times when your neighbors were far off and liable to want your land, some castles used a moat as a natural defence, when no other form of natural terrain advantage was at hand.

Moats were generally used as a deterrent, since sappers could dig under and drain them, or swimmers could cross and then set up ladders or other means to get across the wall, or even break down the gate to let the calvary in to wreak havoc.

So, in short; moats were used by digging a trench and allowing water; especially sewage water; to accumulate in it. Depending on the tastes of the Baron or other Lord who had the castle built, the moat could also be filled with sharpened stakes before being filled, for any people who tried to swim across or simply fell in. The common idea of moats being filled with alligators or other such beasties is mostly myth; it would be rather difficult to _MAKE_ voracious man-eating animals inhabit the moat, especially since they'd be a threat to the inhabitants.

When moats were in style, during times when your neighbors were far off and liable to want your land, some castles used a moat as a natural defence, when no other form of natural terrain advantage was at hand.

Moats were generally used as a deterrent, since sappers could dig under and drain them, or swimmers could cross and then set up ladders or other means to get across the wall, or even break down the gate to let the calvary in to wreak havoc.

Catapults were either weighted or tension devices that could throw (toss) a heavy projectile into or over the castle walls. Large rocks were used to damage castle walls, and burning hay bales or similar objects could be tossed into the center portion to ignite buildings and straw-covered ground. Where available, containers of flammable pitch or oil could similarly be used, but with the threat that they could set fire to the catapult itself.

484,000 square feet, it takes up 13 acres and there is 13,000 rooms

The motte and bailey castles would have rotted within a few years of them being built. The stone castles however are still existing today. These stone castles that are still here today are open to tourists and visitors.

If you think about it, castles took a lot of time (years), effort and money to build, so there would have to be a good reason to place them 'correctly'. (I'm assuming you're not referring to the quick, simple motte and bailey castles which were made of wood and built quickly (although often they were the where the later stone castle was built).

A castle existed for two main reasons.

1. At first, it needed to control the surrounding countryside. Therefore, it housed a small army (or was able to feed and water one). So it was often sited on a hill, by a river, or with easy access to a main highway.

2. It was for protection of the lord (and his family) in areas where other, powerful forces could attack. The peasantry had few weapons and were no real threat. But tribes living over the border (Scots!?) could be a threat, hence the need for protection or to act as a base for counter-raids.

A third reason developed out of the first two. As things became quieter, so the castle became an economic center. A town grew up around it and it grew and grew.

Of course, there is also the fact that a sufficiently rich lord could build a castle simply to show how powerful and wonderful he was, but that is really the same as reason 1: the need for control.

It's Bodiam not Bodium and it's a stone keep.

Tamworth Castle, in Tamworth, Staffordshire

Castles in Europe were made out of many different materials depending on what type of castle it is. For example, Motte and Bailey Castles would have been built out of wood and Stone Castles would (and still are) made out of stone because it is stronger and more sturdy.