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Castles

This is Caernarfon castle; it is in Anglesey, North Wales. It is a concentric

castle the largest of castles. It was where Prince Charles got invested as

Prince of Wales, the Queens first child.


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What is a castle?A castle is a place where all of

the kings use to keep their

army. Kings use to split theirarmies up in to different

places in England and have

different castles. The castles

were mainly for protectingthe soldiers and somewhere

for them to live. Also it was

for protecting the kings,

Queens, princes etc.


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What is a Castles

main purpose?It was used as the

administrative centre for aregion for collecting of taxesetc. it was the military baseof the region and could be

used as a place of refuge inwar times. And it wouldusually be the seat of thelocal lords power. Also it wasan army base where all of

the army can live eat anddrink. Also it was to controlthe country better and so theking wouldnt get ruled over

and so he could get controlover the whole UnitedKingdom.

But what is its main purpose?So they could attack theirenemies and use it as abase.


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Thecastles


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Motte and baily castles

where replaced by stone

keep motte and baily castles.

The stone keep motte and baily

castle is better than the motte

and baily castle because the

stone keep has a stone wall

which makes it a lot stronger

and safer for the people in side.

But it also has another feature

that the motten baily does not

have the stone keep has an

edge on the bottom of the keep

so if they break the wall they

can drop rocks on to the edge

and they bounce off to hit the

other people. And it was made of

brick.

Stone keep castle wherereplaced by Concentric castles

which were virtually impossible

Concentric castles

where the newest

castles of their time

it was virtually

impossible to

conquer because it

had all of the new

features like the

round towers the

murder holes and

How castles where

at t ac k ed and what

we a pons they useA motte and baily castletook 2 weeks to build, andthat was an advantage. It

had a massive hill and a

wooden keep on top of it,

and then there was a

staircase going down to

the baily. In the baily there

were houses sables and a

hall to eat. On the outside

of the baily there is a


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This is a catapult it was used

to throw heavy objects at the

castle. But the trick was that

they were far away so it wasout of arrow distance so

know body got hurt.

This is a siege tower it was

used to push up against the

wall and load many soldiers

in at a time. This was good

because they wouldnt have

to wait to knock down the

walls.

A crossbow was used by the

soldiers to carry in their

hands and there special thing

is that it was light and

powerful.

How castles defended

themselve sCastles were defended by several active and

passive systems;the active systems included the presence of

trained archers on the ramparts and various systemsfor dropping heavy stones or burning oil on theattackers.

The passive systems included their construction ofheavy stone walls, moats, drawbridges, andlandscaping which allowed attackers no place tohide. Most castles also featured a redoubt (asecondary walled building inside the main castle

exterior) to which the lord could retreat.The architecture of the crenelated castle walls wasalso assistance as the defending archers could havewide field of view to shoot towards while remaininghidden from the attackers.

They were the stronger kind of

towers. Much bigger than a normal wall.Even though they were more expensive to

build, they were stronger; thus their

enormous use.

Defenders would throw boiling water

at their victims; making the fall. This was

a very deadly way to stop the invaders'

progression; the only downside was that

getting boiling water was not very easy.

Fire was used and it took a while. If the

invaders attacked continuously, the

boiling water wouldn't last and other ways

to stop them were used. These where

called murder holes.

Thewe a ponsIn the towers on the corners

of the castle there were

archers that fired bow and

arrows at the enemy.

Also they threw rocks

down the side of the castle

then it would bounce of the

edge at the bottom of the

On the sides of the

towers thee where

people with crossbows

that had a longer range

than the bow and

arrows.

The other method the knights

did was miming. It was digging

under the Castles whilst putting

logs to support the Castle then

crawl back out , then pull the

logs then some of the Castle

would come loose, then about

half the Castle would fall down.

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