Stone Castles

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.

quarry

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!

Dont have a Clue LOOK SOMEWHERE ELSE !!!!!

It is not known precisely when the castle was built, but records show the existence of a castle on this site from the early 1200s. The area had been granted to the Durward family in 1229, and they were probably the builders of the castle
It is not know exactly when Urquhart Castle was built or who built it. It is thought possibly to have built by someone in the Durward family, as they took possession of the property in 1229, about the time the castle was built.

William The Conqueror. Aka William of Normandy.

He didn't he made them to assist in taking over Great Britain

Durin the time he was alive before he conquered England.

The most widely known castles are the medieval castles of Europe. However, a castle is a fortification in which people lived.

They can also be found in Japan, China and other places. The Osaka Castle, for example, is one of the more famous castles in Japan.

Possibly a hundred or so people, including servants, lived in the stone keeps. A keep was a last resort place of safety for defenders of a castle. In general, the Lord and his lady would have private rooms on the top, with a floor held as the great hall, where people met to eat, according to their station in life. Often a dungeon was prisoners was part of it; also room for horses and other animals. Living quarters were on an upper floor, accessible by ladder.

All castles that exist today are made from stone because stone lasts for a long time. In total there were three types of castles: Stone Keep castles (Stone castles), Motte and Bailey castles and Concentric castles. The Stone Keep castles were made out of stone along with the Concentric Castles and still stand to this day as great monuments. The Motte and Bailey castles, however were made out of wood and have all rotted away to leave none left standing today.

disadvantage:dig a tunnel underneath

advantage:no weak square corners

During the seige, tunnels were excavated under deep under the stone walls of castles. The carcasses of pigs, which in those days were more fat than lean were burnt in the excavations with any other flammable material available. This weakened the Castle structure and aided in the collapse of the walls