Tag Archives: Norman keep
The Xylo castle #AtoZchallenge
And so arrives the dread X. It so happens xylo is a Greek word related to wood and this leads me to building materials. As I’ve mentioned in a few posts, castles weren’t always made with stone. The early ones utilised wood and lots of earthworks. Even though stone was popular with the Romans, the […]
Hedingham: Keeping it #atozchallenge
There is this romantic perspective of castles. We can probably blame Disneyland for the illusion: the image of a castle is often of rings of walls, towers and a great keep occupying the centre. The reality is not quite the same. Castles were constructed over huge timeframes – centuries. They often changed hands, past from […]
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