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	Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A castle (from the Latin castellum, diminutive of castra, a military camp, in turn the plural of castrum or watchpost), is a fort, a camp and the logical development of a fortified enclosure.
		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.
		The word "castle" (castel) was introduced into English shortly before the Norman Conquest to denote a type of fortress, then new to the country, brought in by the Norman knights whom Edward the Confessor had sent for to defend Herefordshire against the inroads of the Welsh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castle (3117 words)

	Encyclopedia: Castle
		Maiden Castle from the north Maiden Castle is a hill fort, mostly dating from the Iron Age, situated 2 miles south of Dorchester, in Dorset, England.
		A chÃ¢teau (French for castle; plural chÃ¢teaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of gentry, usually French, with or without fortifications.
		In addition to the castle walls, other defensive features include towers at the angular direction changes of walls, moats, drawbridges, battlements, portcullises, etc. The moated manor house of Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire, England Moats were deep and wide trenches, usually filled with water, to provide a barrier against attack upon castle ramparts or other fortifications.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Castle (7288 words)

	Medieval Castles By Build Model Castles - Castle History
		The first castle built by Duke William’s forces was apparently a prefabricated fort, built in France, taken apart and loaded onto some of the nearly one thousand ships in his flotilla, and then assembled when the Norman force landed at Pevensey, on the southwest coast of England.
		The construction of the castles was under the direction of James of St George, regarded as one of the greatest architects of the Middle Ages.
		Harlech Castle (the castle featured in The Castle Builder’s Handbook) was the last of the great Edwardian castles to be completed during the king’s lifetime, and exhibits the ultimate concepts in castle construction.
	www.buildmodelcastles.com /html/castle_history.html (3052 words)

	Destinations UK - Maiden Castle, Iron Age Hill Fort, Somerset
		Maiden Castle is the largest Iron Age hill fort in Europe and covers an area of 47 acres.
		Maiden Castle is maintained by English Heritage and is open all year.
		Maiden Castle is located off the A354, 2 miles south of Dorchester in Dorset.
	www.historic-uk.com /DestinationsUK/MaidenCastle.htm (408 words)

	Britannia: English Castles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Where possible, reference is made to existing castles within a comfortable day's journey of London so that the visitor who wishes to view a selection of English castles, but has limited time at his or her disposal, need not travel far from the capital.
		Castles were primarily the residences of the nobility and the gentry and the life lived in them was very much akin to that of the later country house.
		Motte and bailey castles came in a variety of configurations but the most common was a single mound and enclosure, with the motte at one end of the bailey and separated from it by its ditch.
	www.britannia.com /history/david1.html (1847 words)

	MAIDAN - LoveToKnow Article on MAIDAN
		A " maiden " assize, circuit or session is one at which there are no prisoners for trial; a " maiden over " or " maiden " in cricket is an over from which no runs are scored.
		A " maiden speech " is the first speech made by a member of parliament in the house.
		The maiden was practically an early form of guillotine.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MAIDAN.htm (698 words)

	Maiden Castle
		Maiden Castle was the biggest of all the English Hillforts and originally came into existence as a Causewayed Camp.
		Maiden Castle was used as a regional capital, a seat of Government heralding the dawn of the Feudal system prevalent during the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages of the Medieval period.
		The Durotriges were defeated in the bloody battle at Maiden Castle and the Romans continued their invasion across all of the Durotrigean lands conquering a further 20 Hillforts.
	www.castles.me.uk /maiden-castle.htm (1073 words)

	DorsetLife On-Line Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Looming to the south-west of Dorchester, Maiden Castle was probably chosen as a fortress because it was the only significant hill in the area.
		The wildlife of Maiden Castle is typical of chalk downland, with chalk-loving summer flowers attracting invertebrates and birds typical of open countryside.
		Maiden Castle is also an excellent location for observing the fast-flying migrant clouded yellow butterfly from mid to late summer.
	www.dorsetlife.co.uk /articles/ArticlesDetail.asp?ID=29 (1022 words)

	Adrian The Ageing Hippy's Photos Of Maiden Castle Iron Age Hillfort
		Maiden Castle is a very large hill-fort, also containing a Neolithic long barrow, and the remains of a Romano-British temple.
		The hill on which it stands was first selected for habitation by a group of early Neolithic farmers who built a causewayed camp on the E end of the current site, enclosing about 10 acres, in around 4000BC.
		Maiden Castle was finally stormed and sacked between 43 and 44AD, by Vespasian's legion in the course of its westward advance.
	www.adrian.smith.clara.net /maiden_castle.html (433 words)

	Welcome to RAFT - Arts and Crafts from Dorset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Maiden Castle's great vantage point and dominant presence in the landscape begins to reveal itself as you climb higher.
		The importance of the castle remains, and it watches, and waits, and stands strong and bold in the landscape.
		The causewayed access to the Eastern end of the castle weaves in and around high mounds which force the visitor to turn broadside on to gain access, or face a difficult and tiring climb over three or four ramparts.
	www.raftdorset.info /castle.htm (1087 words)

	Kızkalesi Photo Album 2004
		The striking massive Maiden's Castle, lying just 200 m offshore, seems to float on the blue waves of the Mediterranean giving the place something magic.
		Facing Maiden's Castle on the shore are the ruins of Korykos Castle which was linked in ancient times to the sea castle by a causeway.
		The castles were a link in the chain of coastal fortifications eastablished by the Byzantine admiral Eugenius in 1104 to defend and protect the borders of Byzantium.
	www.anatolia.luwo.be /Kizkalesi.htm (473 words)

	Station Information - Maiden Castle
		Maiden Castle in Dorset, England is an extensive hill fort, mostly dating from the Iron Age.
		Situated 2 miles south of Dorchester the earthworks cover around 18 hectares and are up to 6 m high.
		The name Maiden is believed to derive from the Celtic for great hill, mai dun.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/maiden_castle.html (211 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Maiden Castle is the largest Iron Age Hill Fort in Britain, and a spectacular testimony to the power of the tribal leaders in Iron Age Britain.
		He carried out excavations at Colchester [1920] at Maiden Castle [1934-37] and St Albans, and was well known for his "trench system" style of excavation.
		His excavation at Maiden Castle was the culmination of his career in Britain.
	www.open2.net /romans/location/loc11.htm (349 words)

	Maiden Castle
		Maiden Castle is the largest and most famous pre-Roman fortress in Britain.
		Maiden Castle is nearly 47 acres in size, with banks as high as 80 feet.
		The term "maiden" may be misleading; it derives from the pre-Celtic (Brythonic) term "mai dun", which is usually translated as "great hill", but may also be rendered as "principle fort".
	www.britainexpress.com /counties/dorset/ancient/maiden-castle.htm (439 words)

	England Pictures, Maiden Castle - information, travel guide, map and England Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Some - like Maiden Castle - were established over previous Neolithic settlements that had occupied the area for several thousand years.
		Maiden Castle would have been the home of the Durotriges elite and their dependants, while commoners lived in farms around the hill.
		Maiden Castle is in Dorset [on the south coast], England.
	www.bugbog.com /gallery/england_pictures/maiden_castle_pictures_1.html (236 words)

	Castle, Vernon and Castle, Irene -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The word is sometimes applied to prehistoric earthworks, such as Maiden Castle, England; and the word is also applied, in various linguistic forms (e.g., château, castello, or Burg), to princely mansions or country seats.
		The forecastle and aftercastle (or sterncastle) are at the bow and stern of the vessel.
		In medieval Europe, the castle was the most common type of stronghold and often the residence of the king or territorial lord.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9318978 (896 words)

	Maiden Castle
		Covering an area of some 47 acres, Maiden Castle is the largest hill fort in Britain and lies 2 miles south of Dorchester in the county of Dorset.
		Three concentric rings of ditches formed the defences, with the spoil heaped on the inner side of the ditch to create an earthern rampart, effectively doubling the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top.
		At Maiden Castle the entrances through each defensive ring were offset, possibly causing an attacking force to be concentrated into a relatively small area within the ditch, and making attack from above far more effective.
	www.theheritagetrail.co.uk /early%20ages/maiden%20castle.htm (463 words)

	Brigantes Nation Maiden Castle Hut Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Close to Maiden Castle, some 200m south east, is a well preserved hut circle (which may be square) This is also close to an ancient track, which leads up the hill close by to a broken standing stone.
		Maiden Castle hut circle, note the line of three large stones in the foreground to the right.
		This hut circle is yet more proof of the significant evidence of early occupation for the area, although no occupation evidence is known for this particular circle, it is consistent with circles excavated locally and ensewhere in the region known to date to the Late Bronze / early Iron Age period.
	www.brigantesnation.com /SiteResearch/Iron%20Age/MaidenCastleReeth/MaidenCastleHutCircle.htm (254 words)

	Hillforts - Maiden Castle - Castell Henllys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Maiden Castle (declared by English Heritage to be "the finest and largest Iron Age hill fort in Europe") is near Dorchester, in Dorset.
		During the Neolithic period, a causewayed enclosure was constructed on the site (the dark line running north-south on the photo delineates its western boundary) and, later, a large bank barrow (about 1790 feet/545 metres by 59 feet/18 metres) was added (visible in the photo as the line running east-west across the centre).
		The slings of the defenders proved no match for the bolts of the Roman's catapults and Maiden Castle was captured.
	www.stephen.j.murray.btinternet.co.uk /defence.htm (740 words)

	England Pictures, Maiden Castle - information, travel guide, map and England Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Maiden Castle covers about 45 acres, surrounded by a couple of miles of 6m [20ft] earth/chalk walls.
		Maiden Castle is one mile south of Dorchester off the A354 and there is a free car park adjacent.
		Dorchester's Dorset County Museum displays artefacts found on Maiden Hill such as flint tools and bronze age pottery, as well as the bodies of Durotrige warriors killed by the Romans.
	www.bugbog.com /gallery/england_pictures/maiden_castle_pictures_3.html (167 words)

	UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Set in 1930s Dorchester, Maiden Castle charts the difficult relationship of a historical novelist, whose father believes himself to be the incarnation of an ancient Welsh god, and a young circus acrobat.
		At the heart of the novel, acting as a controlling symbol, is Maiden Castle itself, the Dorset earthwork that is being systematically dissected by the scientific hands of modern archaeologists.
		Whatever the critics may make of Maiden Castle in future, they will at least be judging the work as Powys intended it and for that we cannot praise too highly the magnificent scholarship of Ian Hughes, which lies so discreetly behind this volume.
	www.uwp.co.uk /book_desc/1061.html (301 words)

	MAIDEN CASTLE - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of the most amazing finds was the skeleton of an ancient Briton defender dating from the time of the Roman annihilation of Maiden castles defenders - with a ballista bolt (siege engine's arrow head) still embedded in its spine.
		Maiden Castle was a good place to stop at if doing the 'Brewery Crawl' from the Eldridge-Pope brewery (in Dorchester) and The Redruth Brewery Co (in Weymouth).
		Maiden Castle is an absolutely fantastic place and well worth a visit (in the summer).
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=169910 (875 words)

	Stones of England - Maiden Castle hillfort
		The early construction of Maiden Castle took place around 3000 BC.
		In the Iron Age, between 350 and 70 BC, Maiden Castle became a flourishing town; massive triple and double ramparts were constructed as well as complex entrances.
		By AD 70 the survivors of the massacre had moved down into the new Roman town of Durnovaria, now Dorchester, and Maiden Castle was deserted.
	www.stonepages.com /england/maidencastle.html (292 words)

	Celtic Wonder: Maiden Castle - Civilization Fanatics' Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Civilopedia: Maiden Castle is a Celtic fortress that lies in present region of Wessex, England, built in many stages among 3.5000 and 350 b.C. Maiden derives from “Mai Dun”, that means great hill.
		Maiden Castle just felled down in the I century, after several attacks of the Roman Empire.
		which means the castle will have been constructed from timber not stone, althoug in saying that the iron age started in britain 100 years before the rest of europe.
	forums.civfanatics.com /showthread.php?t=91620 (719 words)

	Maiden Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Maiden Castle is the largest Iron Age Hill Fort in Europe.
		Sir Mortimer Wheeler, in his wisdom, created a story of how (he thought) the Romans took Maiden Castle.
		His interpretation of the evidence is deeply flawed, partialy lack of knowledge, and partiality the love of a good story!
	www.gallica.co.uk /celts/maiden.htm (325 words)

	Roman and Iron age fortifications
		Aerial Image of Maiden Castle, a Briton fort constructed prior to the Roman Invasion.
		Due to the design of Maiden Castle, catapults were particularly effective.
		(7) The Iron Age fort, Maiden Castle, was built in an age where hand-to-hand combat was the method of attacking a structure.
	www.schoolshistory.org.uk /romanforts.htm (471 words)

	Maiden Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was suggested by Hector Boece in his History of Scots (published in 1526) that the castle must have had up to seven outer ramparts.
		If this was the case it must have been built by a rich and powerful lord, possibly Macduff, the Thane of Fife and at some time during the reign of David I, whose followers introduced this style to Scotland.
		This could be the case as the original Macduff castle on the Forth shore at East Wemyss, only a few kilometers to the south west was of a similar design - as was Lochore Castle in central Fife in the present-day Lochore Meadows Country Park.
	www.fife-education.org.uk /socsub/SocialSubjects/Scottish_History/Royalty/RoyalFife/Castles/maiden.htm (170 words)

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