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Castles part1

Castles part1. The different structure of castles- development of the castle. Recap. What did we concentrate on last week-? What did you learn?. The story of castles. Slide-share. How castles developed. Motte & Bailey.

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Castles part1

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  1. Castles part1 The different structure of castles- development of the castle.

  2. Recap What did we concentrate on last week-? What did you learn?

  3. The story of castles

  4. Slide-share

  5. How castles developed

  6. Motte & Bailey • An early kind of castle was a woodentower built on a flat-topped mound, or motte, with a wooden fence around it. A guarded gateway and abrdieg led to a larger enclosed area, the bailey

  7. Tower Keep • By the 11th century, some towers were built of stone, which was both fireproof and much stronger than wood. In the 13th century, a stone curtain wall with a large gatehouse surrounded this massive keep or great tower.

  8. Concentric Castles • By the 13th century, many new castles has no keep at all. Increasingly, the buildings insider were protected by two sets of curtain walls, the outer one lower than the inner. These are called concentric castles

  9. facts Over 10,000 castles were buit in Germany, and in france and 2,000 in Britain and Ireland. A castle controlled territory for about 16km all around it- as a far as a knight could ride in a day. King Edward I spent 80,000 pound on castle building in Wales, about 25 million pound today- so about $50 million.

  10. Getting organised Open your netbooks- lots to do!

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