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		Build a Medieval Castle ^Votes:0 FREE: Build a Medieval Castle! Free educational project to make authentic medieval castle. Teaches about feudalism and life in the Middle Ages. Free Software! NEW!! Play an on-line game about Heraldry and medieval life. Find more FREE educational software at the Owl & Mouse Home Page. Click Here Build a Medieval Castle Make your own model medieval castle -- a learning activity that teaches about history, feudalism and life in the Middle Ages. Free educational software. Build your own medieval castle, complete with towers, gatehouse and keep. To understand how an army lay siege to a castle, how a castle was defended, or what it might be like to live in a castle (though this varied by who you were) -- build a model castle. NEW! Build a Medieval Castle online. No download, no installation; pr Read More Go to Site


		CASTLES ^Votes:0 Castles .... ............... As you look out the wind hole of the giant keep all you see is the moat and the giant meadows! You see the horses and nights charging towards the castle. Panic flies all over your body. You tell your servants to run and warn the defenders to prepare for a siege. BOOOM! The castle wall starts collapsing! Stone castles first existed in the 9th century. The castle was held together with mortar. The mortar held the bricks of the castle together. Walls could be as thick as thirty feet! Passages under ground were also helpful to defenders. They have many parts to them. They are the Keep, the Sentry Walk, the moat, the Inner and Outer Bailey, the Inner and Outer gatehouse, the Curtain and the Drawbridge. They are often built on high mountains surrounded by a moat. Thi Read More Go to Site

		Castles on the Web offers castle links, castle photos, castle site of the day, castles for kids, free castle web pages and more! ^Votes:0 Introduction A short introduction to Castles on the Web, how it began and why. Castle Greetings! - Look! Send your friends a Castle Greeting card! It's easy... and it's free! Castle Photo Archive A growing collection of user submitted Castle photos. Castle Tours Search and tour individual Castles from around the world. Castle Collections Tour Castle sites that contain multiple Castle listings. Palaces and Great Homes Here you will find a listing of palaces and great homes. Abbeys and Churches You'll find Abbeys and Churches listed here. Miscellaneous Castles Includes other interesting Castle related sites. Castles for Kids Hey Kids! These pages are devoted to you and Castles! Glossary of Terms An extensive listing of Castle terms and their meanings. Our Guestbook Please take a moment and s Read More Go to Site

		Castles: Some History, Pictures and Plans ^Votes:0 Castles: A Little History, Some Pictures and Plans To really do a history of castles would be to duplicate the work of a lot of fine historians. Here, it is much more sensible to refer you to their work and to focus on the parts relevant to our own castle planning. Our favorite source books include Sidney Toy's Castles: Their Construction and History , Colin Platt's The Castle in Medieval England & Wales (currently out of print), and Paul Johnson's Castles of England, Scotland and Wales . See the Bibliography for others that I refer to in the following material. ? A Little History Mixed Liberally with Pictures From the vast fortifications of Greek and Roman times, and the Iron Age hill forts of Northern Europe, there evolved a form of military and residential place known as the castle. Whe Read More Go to Site

		Home page ^Votes:0 CASTELLO DI THIENE SNC, C.SO GARIBALDI 2, 36016 THIENE (VI) Read More Go to Site

		Isle of Man - Peel Castle ^Votes:0 Peel Castle Peel Castle - Photograph by Island Photographics Limited Read More Go to Site

		NOVA Online \| Secrets of Lost Empires \| Medieval Siege ^Votes:0 --> Welcome to the companion Web site to the NOVA program "Medieval Siege," scheduled for broadcast on January 24, 2006. In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires , a team of timber framers and other specialists design, build, and fire a pair of trebuchets, a devastating engine of war popular in the Middle Ages. Here's what you'll find online: Medieval Arms Race The trebuchet was only the most frightening of the weapons early European warriors employed in siege warfare. They also relied on battering rams, siege towers, tunnels - anything to gain access to a castle. Defenders, meanwhile, had a few tricks of their own. NOVA Builds a Trebuchet Follow a slide show that documents NOVA's successful attempt to build and shoot a giant trebuchet, the most destructive w Read More Go to Site

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