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The three main types of castles are the motte and bailey castle, the stone keep castle, and the concentric castle.
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For those of you writing epic or swords and sorcery fantasy, or anything set in Medieval times, this post is for you. Chances are that somewhere in your story there will be a castle and you will n…
This diagram, photographed inside the castle, shows the keep as it probably looked when it stood alone in the fifteenth century. It was built by the Maxwells of Calderwood. Unusually the turnpike stair in this, the oldest part of the castle, rotates anticlockwise (as you climb). Most castle spiral staircases rotate clockwise, the theory being that a clockwise stair is easier for a right handed swordsman to defend. I have seen this in one other castle before (and I can’t remember which…
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