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.

What is a castle?
A castle is a place where all of the kings use to keep their army. Kings use to split their armies up in to different places in England and have different castles. The castles were mainly for protecting the soldiers and somewhere for them to live. Also it was for protecting the kings, Queens, princes etc.

What is a Castles It was used as the administrative centre for a main purpose?

region for collecting of taxes etc. it was the military base of the region and could be used as a place of refuge in war times. And it would usually be the seat of the local lords power. Also it was an army base where all of the army can live eat and drink. Also it was to control the country better and so the king wouldnt get ruled over and so he could get control over the whole United Kingdom. But what is its main purpose? So they could attack their enemies and use it as a base.

The castles

How castles where attacked and what weapons they use

Motte and baily castles where replaced by stone keep motte and baily castles.

A motte and baily castle took 2 weeks to build, and that 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 fence with a draw bridge

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 where replaced 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 the 3 gate houses.

trained archers on the ramparts and various systems for dropping heavy stones or burning oil on the attackers. The passive systems included their construction of heavy stone walls, moats, drawbridges, and landscaping which allowed attackers no place to This is a siege tower it was hide. Most castles also featured used to push up against the a redoubt (a secondary walled building inside the main castle wall and load many soldiers exterior) to which the lord could retreat. in at a time. This was good The architecture of the crenelated castle walls was because they wouldnt have archers could have also assistance as the defending to wait to knock down the wide field of view to shoot towards while remaining walls. from the attackers. hidden

This is a catapult it was used to throw heavy objects at the castle. But the trick was that Castles werewere far away so itactive and they defended by several was passive systems;arrow distance so out of the active systems included the presence of know body got hurt.

How castles defended themselves

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.

In the towers on by the A crossbow was usedthe corners of the carry there were soldiers to castle in their archers that special thing hands and there fired bow and arrows at the and is that it was light enemy. powerful. Also they threw rocks down the side of the castle then it would bounce of the edge at the bottom of the tower.

The weapons
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.