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	Castle Curtain Walls
		A curtain wall, or enclosing wall, of a castle bounded or enclosed the castle.
		The early curtain walls were made of heavy timbers and are most often associated with motte and bailey castles.
		Curtain walls were almost always battlemented and had a parapet near the top and inside of the wall.
	www.castles-of-britain.com /castlesy.htm (674 words)

	Castle walls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Castle walls were an evolutionary defense structure over a period of thousands of years.
		Castle walls are seen in all cultures, from Mesopotamian, to Arabian, and to (most famously) western European cultures.
		Although castle walls initially started out as a round circle of logs, but with the advent of stone wall construction, it was easier to build walls in neat, straight lines and 90° corners to create a box shape that was also appealing to the eye.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castle_walls (395 words)

	Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A castle (from the Latin castellum) is a structure that is fortified for defence against an enemy and generally serves as a military headquarters dominating the surrounding countryside[1].
		Castle walls, together with lodgings (keep) suitable for a Lord, as well as lower grade housing within the walls to accommodate some of the key population of the local area, served this purpose.
		Castles were also developed to defend key part of the countryside such as a mountain pass or river estuary, and often made use of the natural geography to support the defensive walls through exploitation of cliffs, rivers, hills, and the like.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castle (3772 words)

	Trebuchet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Occasionally it was used to throw the bodies of people who had died from various diseases including the fl plague over castle walls, in an attempt to infect the people under siege.
		Castle designers often built their fortifications with trebuchets in mind; for instance, Caerphilly Castle in Wales was surrounded by artificial lakes to keep besiegers and their siege weapons at a distance.
		The trebuchets were test-fired against a replica of a castle wall built on the site, and demonstrated the impressive accuracy, repeatability, and effectiveness of the weapon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trebuchet (2981 words)

	Castell Caernarfon Castle
		At the end of the first building phase, the north wall of the castle didn't have a wall, and was instead defended by the town walls and a wide rock cut ditch.
		The town walls and castle were repaired, and the north wall of the castle was finally added, including the King's Gate.
		The king's son, Edward was born in 1284 and henceforward the castle must have been seen as the palace of a new dynasty of princes.
	www.caernarfononline.co.uk /castle (1423 words)

	St Andrews Castle Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		As such, the Castle became the principal administrative centre of the Scottish Church and was the setting for some of the key events in Scottish history.
		His strong opposition to the marriage of the infant Mary, Queen of Scots to Prince Edward, son and heir of Henry VIII of England was a major factor leading to renewed warfare between the two countries in 1544.
		A determined effort to undermine the walls of the castle via a spacious tunnel large enough to take pack animals was intercepted, after several false starts, by the defenders.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /standrews/standrewscastle/index.html (1065 words)

	Life in ‘Glass Castle’ made Walls stronger - BOOKS - MSNBC.com
		Walls wastes little time unveiling the dichotomy that is her life — a high-profile Park Avenue reporter with a unconventional and often tragic past that followed her from the hollows of West Virginia to Manhattan.
		You are enrapt reading about Walls and her siblings rifling through trash cans at school looking for food, doing the skedaddle in the middle of the night, or waiting for Dad to come home after another bender.
		Walls tells the story from the point of view of herself as a child, recalling the events as she saw them at each respective age.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7139443 (987 words)

	Life in a Medieval Castle
		The castle family sat on a raised dais of stone or wood at the upper end of the hall, opposite to the entrance, away from drafts and intrusion.
		The hearth was moved to a location against a wall with a funnel or hood to collect and control the smoke, and finally, funnel and all, was incorporated into the wall.
		When the chamber walls were not thick enough for this arrangement, a latrine was corbeled out from the wall over either a moat or river, as in the domestic range at Chepstow, or with a long shaft reaching nearly to the ground.
	www.castlewales.com /life.html (1824 words)

	THE MIDDLE AGES: THE FORTIFICATION OF THE CASTLE WALLS AND GATES
		he castle walls were the primary barriers between the inhabitants of the castle and marauding armies.
		The surrounding walls of the inner curtain were about 40 feet high, making the inner curtain the most massive defense network of the castle.
		Additionally, unlike the towers of the town wall which where in the shape of a semicircle, the towers of both castle walls were completely closed off in a full circle.
	library.thinkquest.org /10949/fief/medcastlegate.html (848 words)

	Mass Valkyrie Riders
		Castle walls would range from 6 feet to 15 feet thick.
		Repeated firings of the machine would hurl the rocks at the same spot on the castle walls until the walls themselves were pulverized.
		A gap in the castle wall would then allow the attackers to enter the castle and lay siege to the occupants.
	valkyrieriders.com /ma (437 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Southampton Town Walls and Castle - A337141
		castle with a timber palisade had been built; and the palisade was soon replaced by a stone curtain wall.
		A 'motte' is an earthwork mound on which a castle was built; and a 'bailey' is a courtyard within the walls of the castle.
		The architecture of a castle's defences can be thought of as a mechanism that channels attacking forces into situations in which they are most easily destroyed, either by dispersing them or by concentrating them into tight places.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A337141 (3248 words)

	Denbigh Castle
		The massive walls and powerful gatehouse belie the castle's former glory, but, with the tiniest bit of effort, it is easy to imagination medieval Denbigh and the intimidating effect the castle would have had on both foe and friend.
		Essentially, Denbigh Castle was assembled during two phases, the first of which included the rapid construction of rather insubstantial outer defenses along the southern and western sides.
		During the second phase, heavy defenses were added to the castle: the curtain wall was refortified with thicker and higher walls, and huge polygonal towers were constructed on either side of the gatehouse.
	www.castlewales.com /denbigh.html (2127 words)

	Japanese castles
		The need for castles arouse after the central government's authority had weakened in the 15th century and Japan had fallen into the chaotic era of warring states (sengoku jidai).
		Unlike the earlier castles, they were built in the plains or on small hills in the plains, where they served as a region's administrative and military headquarters, and became the centers of "castle towns".
		The typical castle gate consists of two gates which are placed in a 90 degree angle to each other, creating a small inner yard which is heavily defended from all sides.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2296.html (500 words)

	Mid Term Papers: Term Papers on English Literature
		Castles were built on steep hill sides or at the top of rocky cliffs.
		Castle walls surrounded the entire castle and were usually several meters thick.
		Some castle walls had spaces at the top called embrassures, which allowed archers to shoot with the protection of the wall.
	www.midtermpapers.com /7573.htm (519 words)

	Newcastle Emlyn Castle
		In 1403 the castle was taken by Owain Glyndwr, but was described as being in ruins by 1428.
		After the general surrender of the Royalists, the castle was blown up to make it indefensible and, according to a source of 1700, the castle was plundered and ever since neglected.
		Access to the upper floor of the gatehouse was via an external stair adjacent to the east wall of the north tower, which may have also served as an access stair to the wall-walk on the curtain wall.
	www.castlewales.com /newcas2.html (633 words)

	Castle Walls
		Walls rising steeply into the fog told her where she was, her heart filling with dread.
		The guard on the walls had tripled in response to the threat, but half of them were walking wounded.
		As they were herded from the castle, the ringing of metal on metal filled the courtyard.
	www.djordanredhawk.net /castle/wallspro.htm (1451 words)

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		At first castle walls were wooden, making them cheap and quick to build, but they were vulnerable to arson.
		Caerphilly Castle is the earliest example of this in Britain, and the largest castle ever built in Wales.
		Often, these walls sloped away at the base to redirect objects dropped from the top of the castle wall, ricocheting them out at soldiers on the ground.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/lostempires/trebuchet/walls.html (340 words)

	RPGnet: Review of Castle
		Castle Walls: These "walls" are printed on medium weight card stock that's only finished one one side..
		The castle is created in the middle of the board, with the four cardboard strips forming four broad areas: the courtyard (16 spaces in a 4x4 grid), the walls (4 areas of 4 spaces each), the towers (4 areas of 1 space each) and the outside (a somewhat indeterminate space).
		Castle is one of those games where the gameplay isn't entirely obvious from the rules.
	www.rpg.net /reviews/archive/10/10757.phtml (1728 words)

	Martin Castle
		With its dozen turrets, four corner towers and 12-foot walls, the castle is at once a forbidding sight and a vision of whimsy.
		When contacted his ex-wife whom the castle was built for she said that she just wanted a house surrounded by ten foot walls and it just got a little carried away.
		Over the years, the castle has become a favorite place for tourists to snap photos and it has even caught the attention of Queen Elizabeth and her entourage.
	www.dupontcastle.com /castles/martin.htm (3591 words)

	Castle Walls Family School
		Castle Walls started as a family based home school, but is expanding to a collective homeschool in the 2006 - 2007 school year.
		Please visit The Castle Walls Online Yard Sale, a section of the Gothique Rose Apparel Ebay Store, and help us raise funds for the upcoming year.
		Gothique Rose Apparel, the Gothique Rose Family and all of it's subsidaries (including Peace For Freedom, Castle Walls, Dark's Anarchy, Druidic Ways & Gypsy Notions, Druid & Gypsy Mystickal Gifts) are the sole or joint property of April S. Walls-Stuart.
	www.castlewallsschool.com (384 words)

	Amazon.com: The Glass Castle: A Memoir (Alex Awards (Awards)): Books: Jeannette Walls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Walls endured pain both physically and emotionally during much of her childhood, partly because of her careless and non-conformist parents and partly because of her unsafe and unstable living conditions.
		Walls eventually had the bravery and resilience to escape her parents and her hardships and make a better life for herself.
		Walls' lack of financial and emotional stability was reflected throughout the memoir.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743247531?v=glance (2192 words)

	Ganondorf's Stronghold Forums -> Castle Walls
		He followed along the wall until he came to the wood he knew would have to be there, Amicus climbed the steps as quietly as he may.
		The longsword she had been training with was stood up carefully against the wall, right next to the bed she woke upin.
		The wall seemed to be sliding underneath his fingers but he followed it aimlessly.
	s4.invisionfree.com /Stronghold_Forums/index.php?showtopic=238&st=0 (4660 words)

	Glossary of Castle Terms
		Double-splayed - Embrasure whose smallest aperture is in the middle of the wall.
		Hoarding - Upper wooden stories on a stone castle wall; the living area; sometimes, a temporary wooden balcony suspended from the tops of walls from which missiles could be dropped.
		Outer Curtain - The wall the encloses the outer ward.
	www.castlesontheweb.com /glossary.html (2370 words)

	Castle walls- Évora, Portugal - VirtualTourist.com
		On the picture is the chunk of wall from Alcárcova de Cima, integrated in the House of Burgos, where the overlapping of the wall is visible.
		The town castle walls had different time construtions and was being updated has the times were passing by and the city growing.
		In the 14th century, new walls were built to encompass a growing town, including 40 towers and 10 gates, one of which still faces the road to Lisbon (Porta de Alconchel).
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Portugal/Distrito_de_Evora/Evora-288149/Things_To_Do-Evora-Castle_walls-BR-1.html (1010 words)

	::Castle Features::
		Curtain walls were built progressively lower the further away they were from the keep.
		Some castles were so well built, that attackers could only get to a castle through what was charmingly called the "killing field" - because the attackers had no-where to hide.
		Round towers on a keep or on a curtain wall assisted defence as it was believed that any form of missile thrown or catapulted at the castle would deflect off of a rounded surface.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /castle_features.htm (468 words)

	Castle of Anthony Thyssen
		The floor is decked in a thick red carpet and the stone walls have been polished until it shines.
		Obviously this castle entrance is not designed for the wear and tear of combat troops, but for the greeting of noble visitors such as yourself.
		In the middle of the corridor engraved on the floor in a circle where the carpet gives way to dressed stone is a pentagram and a small podium containing more of the runic buttons you saw on the magic panel to your left.
	www.cit.gu.edu.au /~anthony (391 words)

	Free Essays - Castles
		Walls could also be tunneled under, or undermined, but moats made this difficult.
		Enemies could block off a castle from outside food, water, and help, but it could take months to starve castle defenders, so this usually wasn’t successful.
		Lords of the castle sometimes had social gatherings in the castle.
	www.freeessays.tv /a5852.htm (552 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, Hardcover
		What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity.
		Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
		Her parents, Rex Walls, from the poor mining town of Welch, West Virginia, and Rose Mary, a well-educated artist from Phoenix, love a good adventure and usually don't take into account the care of the children who keep arriving-Lori, Jeannette, Brian, and Maureen-leaving them largely to fend for themselves.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=ME3SNtDCzX&isbn=0743247531&itm=1 (1347 words)

	Become.com - Shop results for castle walls
		Neuschwanstein Castle is nestled in the hills of the Bavarian Alps and is surrounded by lakes and cascading waterfalls.
		Murray Feiss Castle Wall Lantern in Grecian Bronze OL1900GBZ
		From Quoizel Lighting, Outdoor New Castle Wall Mounted Light NW 8970BA has dimensions of H 10.5" x W 7" x E 8" and bulb requirement is 1 x 150W Med.
	www.become.com /shop?q=castle+walls (486 words)

	Castle Walls Beta -- Neverwinter Nights Vault
		Castle Walls Beta - This is the updated version of my castle walls for the Rural Tileset.
		As the wall in not in the middle
		I suggest that you move the normal wall to the middle of the
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	Wired News: Who Haunts These Castle Walls?
		Wiseman has identified three places reputed to house restless souls: the prison cells of the Edinburgh Castle; the South Bridge vaults; and Mary Kings Close, a disused street where people suffering from the plague were sealed up and eventually died.
		The dungeon cells of the castle are said to be teeming with the specters of many famous leaders from the 1745 Jacobite uprising such as the Earl of Kellie, MacDonell of Glengarry and MacDonald of Glencoe.
		Yet the most-sighted phantasms have been of a "ghost dog" from the dogs' cemetery, a ghostly piper and a headless drummer.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,42947,00.html (767 words)

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