Stone Castles

(cass-L) is how you pronounce it castle

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Bodiam Castle was not just built for defence but also for display, It didn't have much defensive features.Bodiam Castle is also considered to be one of the best moated castles from the late medieval period. Even if it was not used as a defence, It had defensive walls ,inner courts , a wooden bridge (defended by a drawbridge), its own defended Gatehouse and Attackers then faced machicolations, three pairs of heavy doors, three portcullises and further 'murder holes' in the vaulted passageway. :)

Castles were once made of wood but that burnt down easily, so over the years it was built by stone

A man called Thomas Woodstock, he oversaw the construction

Advantages: Mass murder & killing at long range on scales never before seen. 30000 Men killed on one day alone at the Battle of the Sonne. It stopped infantry troops to have to duck for cover where they used to line up in rows to fire, that would no longer work in the world of machine guns hence trenches were made to protect the soldiers and hold the lines.

The disadvantages are that they often over heated and were heavy and hard to move. You did not just pick one up alone and move it locale to locale and fire it. It took a team to do it. The Germans probably had one of the best of the machine guns of the time and the French probably the worst one. They often were clogged up with dirt and malfunctioned because of it or as I said barrels over heated due to too much firing at once.

The Browning automatic was a powerful automatic but held few rounds over all. The Tommy gun was good for close combat but it used a small .45 caliber round.

I hope this helps some.

a moat, drawbridge, 9feet thick curtain wall, machicolations, round towers, motte and double bailey, portcullisand a gatehouse.

Red Gilbert had ruled over Caerphilly Castle. After dying in 1295, his son-in-law, Hugh Despenser, acquires the castle and family lands.

yes, Skipton castle is a stone keep castle

a castle

the person who owns warwick castle is maddam tussaides wax museum! (ive spelt it wrong)

The advantages of a stone keep castle include the inability of burning because the castle is built of stone. It will not rot within a few decades, too.

The things you call "windows" are actually arrow slits. They are just wide enough to fire a arrow through, but if you went inside the area where the windows are located in the wall you would find a recess for a man to use to aim, spot, and fire an arrow. The slits look fairly narrow from the outside, but they have a full view of the land below from all angles. This is very good for the defense of the castle.

When the Normans won their victory in the Battle of hastings of 1066, motte and bailey castles started to appear. The first castle was built somewhere in France.

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Stone i think

any one who changes this anser will be killed by a machete wielding psycotic maniac

They did not change from shell keep castles to square keep castle, they existed at the same time.

Most shell keeps were a result of replacing the wooden towers on top of the man made Mottes (erected as a quick way of making a castle) with stone buildings, as they were man made it was often thought they would not take the weight of keep with very tall thick walls like the Tower of London so they made shell keeps, with thinner walls.

To build a substantial keep they would have to demolish the Motte. You would have thicker stronger walls with a square tower, but the extra height on top of the motte is also a defensive advantage, and it woule be cheaper.

The walls themselves were a defensive feature; sometimes with a body of water surrounding the structure (a moat).

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black-smiths and soldiers mainly lived in motte and bailey castles!.x

Nobody knows how it was built because it was founded in 1120, by the powerful normans and was hugely enlarge by King John of Gaunt

Square Keep castles were really to house William's Knights and protect people from attacks. Though they also showed power and skill, as they were made of stone the power of it was stone was very expensive and the skill? It was hard to build with stone.

The highest point of the castle is the keep!