Types of castles
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1066: The first type of castle was built in this year and that type of castle was known as the Motte and Baily castle. The Motte and Baily castle were usually built on high land as had two very steep hills in them and on one of them was a tower and the other was the place where the people lived. These two hills had a wooden bridge connecting to each other. The Motte and Baily castle also has a ditch around it that was filled with water and they also had wooden fence around the castle. The ditch was like an early form of a moat. The entrance was a large wooden gate and the castle was around 50-120 feet high and 50-300 feet in diameter. These types of castles were very popular as they were ways to build and very hard for enemies to invade.
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1100: In this year, the stone keep castle was invented. The stone keep castle was like a more advance and bigger version of the Motte and Baily castle as the stone keep castle but this type of castle had a better defence system. These types of castles had thick stone walls that made it very difficult for attackers to get into the castle. These types of castles also had more towers that were higher. The high towers were very useful to defenders as it gave defenders a better view when trying to defend the castle. The stone keep castle was basically a better and stonger version of the Motte and Baily castle.
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1239: The first concentric castle was built in this year and it belonged to King Edward the first. Back then, the concentric castle was the best form of defence available. This type of castle is known as the concentric castle as the word “concentric” meant one circle inside another and the concentric castle was basically “a castle inside a castle” because the average concentric castle had 2 or 3 layers of walls around it. The concentric castle looked like similar to a stone keep castle. The concentric castle just had a much more advance and better defence system and it looked a lot bigger than the stone keep castle. The only problem with the concentric castle was that it was very expensive to build.