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	Motte and Bailey Castles
		motte is an enditched mound, usually artificial, which supported the strongpoint of the motte-and-bailey castle, overshadowing the bailey or enclosed courtyard below.
		The height of mottes varies greatly, the majority being under 5m, although a few of the sites built in the years immediately following the Norman Conquest are well known for having some of the largest castle mounds in the country.
		Although the Welsh were successful in attacking and burning the "outer castle" or bailey, the Normans on the motte caused enough casualties among the assailants for the attack to be withdrawn.
	www.castlewales.com /motte.html (657 words)

	::Motte and Bailey Castles::
		Motte and bailey castles appeared in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
		Motte and bailey castles were a common feature in England by the death of William the Conqueror in 1087.
		The castle on the motte was reached either by wooden stairs that could be destroyed if the castle itself was attacked or by a 'flying bridge' that connected the bailey to the castle.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /motte_and_bailey_castles.htm (1133 words)

	Etrusia - History - Motte and Bailey Castles
		Motte and Bailey castles are a good example of how practical the British people have been when it comes to making use of sites reinforced by their predecessors.
		After the Norman invasion, the conquerors were keen to establish their foothold on the Saxons and the best way they could think of was with solid power bases, where they garrisoned soldiers to control the surrounding areas.
		Castle builders and designers moved away from the outmoded motte and bailey and started experimenting with the concentric ring castles and square enclosures that are often shown in literature and fiction.
	www.etrusia.co.uk /mottes.php (1050 words)

	Motte and Bailey Castles
		Sometimes, the motte began as a natural hill, which was shaped into a usable mound and surrounded by a ditch.
		Generally, mottes were crowned with a wooden tower which was basically a look-out and an elevated fighting point.
		Motte castles continued to be built up until the 13th century.
	www.castles-of-britain.com /castlesa.htm (392 words)

	Women of the American Revolution - Rebecca Motte
		Motte, who had lost her husband at an early period of the war, and had no son to perform his duty to the country, despatched a messenger to her plantation, and ordered down to Charleston every male slave capable of work.
		Motte and her family had been allowed to occupy an apartment in the mansion while the American forces were at a distance; but when the troops drew near, were ordered to remove immediately.
		Motte, and in her several removals for quiet and security, chanced to be taken to "Buckhead" in the hurried transportation of her effects.
	www.americanrevolution.org /women39.html (2358 words)

	Motte Bailey
		The main enclosure was the bailey, defended by a ditch, bank and palisade, with a timber gate or gate tower; the bailey contained all the residential buildings, presumably timber-framed, required by a lordly household, at least in the first generation.
		To this was added the motte, usually to one side with direct access to the open country, the whole looking like a figure of eight, with the area of the bailey larger than that of the motte.
		The motte itself was a great mound of earth, usually artificial, though sometime part-natural, with its own ditch and bank about the base and thus separated from the bailey, from which it summit was reached usually by an inclined and stepped timber bridge.
	www.castles.org /architecture/architecture_8.htm (179 words)

	Motte and Bailey Castles
		The Motte is hard to attack, as its sides are quite steep.
		The ditches around both the Motte and the bailey would prove a difficult obstacle to overcome for any attackers, with the fence and possibly a drawbridge to overcome immediately after the ditch the castle becomes a very strong fortress.
		A Motte would be susceptible to collapse under the weight of a castle, whilst they were good in the short term the castle would require shoring up and possibly even rebuilding in the longer term.
	www.schoolshistory.org.uk /motteandbaileycastles.htm (468 words)

	La Motte Var Provence France Vacation - House
		The village of La Motte boasts the typically agreeable Provençal amenities: a butchery, two bakeries, a general grocery, pharmacy, and bar-tabac.
		They are a delight for fresh produce, cheese, charcuterie, fish, olive oil, etc. La Motte is also a center of the wine appelation Côtes de Provence and is surrounded by vineyards and wineries for visits and tastings.
		La Motte is a wonderful base for walks (our favorite leads to a nearby 60-foot waterfall), has an active tennis club (of which we are members).
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	The English Castle
		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.
		The primary advantage of motte and bailey castles was that they were quick and cheap to erect, particularly if you had forced labour at your disposal.
		Mottes ranged from 25-30 feet to over 80 feet in height, with the timber tower giving the defenders a further advatange.
	www.britannia.com /history/david1.html (1855 words)

	Ballyclare Motte
		This fine example of a 13th century Norman motte would have had a wooden palisade around the top and would have been manned by a company of soldiers.
		This was one of a chain of mottes which marked the frontier.
		Across the river and within sight of the motte are the bungalows of Riverdale where a hoard of flint arrowheads was discovered when they were being built.
	www.newtownabbey.gov.uk /tour/places/ballyclarem.htm (154 words)

	Welcome to La Motte
		It was in 1695 that a piece of land ‘situated in a valley between the Drakenstein Mountains and Olifantshoek’ was granted to its first owner Hans Hattingh, a German immigrant from Speyer.
		With the initial planting of 3 000 vines, viticulture was established on La Motte by French Huguenot descendant Gabriel du Toit in 1752.
		With a view to establishing a prime wine-producing enterprise, the vineyards were progressively re-planted with noble cultivars and an impressive modern cellar complex, reflecting the spirit of innovation and forward-thinking, was built.
	www.franschhoek.org.za /La_Motte.htm (634 words)

	Motte and Bailey Castles
		At the bottom of the motte, a smaller mound was built for all the horses and cattle and people who weren't going to be based in the fortress itself.
		The main advantage of motte and bailey castles was that they were quick and cheap to erect.
		Mottes ranged from 25 feet (8 metres) to over 80 feet (24 metres) in height, with the timber tower giving the defenders a further advantage.
	www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk /Homework/castles/motteandbailey.htm (380 words)

	Isle la Motte Light History
		In 1609 Samuel de Champlain landed at Isle la Motte on Lake Champlain close to the border with Quebec, and the island was the site of the first French settlement in Vermont in 1666.
		In 1949 the property was bought by the Clark family from their dentist, who had purchased it from the Coast Guard.
		Owners of Isle la Motte Lighthouse: L to R, Lockwood "Lucky" Clark, his sister Erika Bayer, Claire Clark, and Rob Clark.
	www.lighthouse.cc /islelamotte/history.html (787 words)

	La Motte
		La Motte Wine Estate in the Franschhoek Valley is well-known for the elegant way in which wine-tastings are presented.
		During harvest-time - from early February until the end of March - visitors to La Motte are treated to wine-tastings of an unusual kind.
		Visiting hours at La Motte are from 09h00 until 16h30 during the week, and Saturdays from 10h00 until 15h00.
	www.wine.co.za /Directory/News.aspx?NEWSID=5278&PRODUCERID=1118 (233 words)

	RA: Resident Advisor - Dr. Motte speaks out against Love Parade - News Fo
		Motte has described this year´s event as “counterproductive” and main sponsor fitness entrepreneur Rainer Schaller “a nobody” in an interview with German newspaper Berliner Zeitung.
		In 1997 Dr. Motte famously brought along a yoga teacher and attempted to get the one-million strong crowd to meditate with the chant "I am all quiet inside." This year Dr. Motte has not been invited.
		That aside, permission wasn't a problem in previous years either, the problem was with being granted the status of a political demonstration, which determinded who had to foot the clean-up bill, which eventually led to the death of the Loveparade 2004.
	www.residentadvisor.net /forum_read.asp?id=23717 (2037 words)

	Motte
		The size of the Motte was influenced by whether it was necessary to impress the population both militarily and politically
		The Motte was crowned with a wooden tower which served as a look-out, an elevated fighting point and provided accommodation for the Noble.
		Later the word 'motte' was changed into 'moat' and was originally used to describe the wet ditch.
	www.castles.me.uk /motte.htm (394 words)

	Isle La Motte Lighthouse
		In 1857, the Lighthouse Board, at the instigation of local pilots, authorized a small light to replace a private one on the northwest point of Isle La Motte.
		However, the light proved to be unreliable on stormy nights, and in 1868 the Board recommended a small lighthouse to be erected in its place.
		Isle La Motte was one of the ones on their list.
	www.cyberlights.com /lh/vt/islelamotte.htm (482 words)

	Isle La Motte Lighthouse, Vermont at Lighthousefriends.com
		A century and a half after the first settlement was established on Isle La Motte, a lantern was hung from a pine tree east of the old fort in 1829, establishing the first navigational light on Isle la Motte.
		One such tower, with an automatic beacon, replaced the Isle La Motte light in 1933, and the lightstation was sold into private hands.
		In 1949, the Isle La Motte Lighthouse was purchased by the Robert C. Clark family from his family's dentist, the original private owner of the lighthouse.
	www.lighthousefriends.com /light.asp?ID=669 (675 words)

	Knockgraffon Motte.
		Six kilometres north of Cahir is a man-made earthen mound known as the Motte of Knockgraffon.
		This was an Anglo-Norman settlement in the 12th and 13th centuries and would have included a wooden structure on the summit.
		The motte is a National Monument but it has never been investigated archaeologically.
	www.theapplefarm.com /knockgraffon.htm (115 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: Warren F. Motte
		Readers of the contemporary novel in France are witnessing the most astonishing reinvigoration of narrative prose since the New Novel of the 1950s.
		Choosing ten novels published during the 1990s as examples of that trend, Warren Motte traces the resurgence of the novel in France.
		Warren Motte is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /dalkey/backlist/motte.html (384 words)

	York Motte, York - Yorkshire - UK Attraction
		York Motte (a motte is a mound) once formed half of a pair of castles which overlooked the River Ouse, the other being Clifford’s Tower which still retains its appearance of a defence fortification.
		York Motte is an earthwork motte and bailey fortress which was first constructed during Norman times by William the Conqueror.
		The motte was then used for grazing cattle, practising archery, and traditional Shrove Tuesday activities.
	www.ukattraction.com /yorkshire/york-motte.htm (179 words)

	Motte Family Coat of Arms by The Tree Maker
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		Keep in mind that we can add the Motte family coat of arms / Motte family crest symbol along with your family names to anyone of our family tree charts listed below.
	www.thetreemaker.com /family-coat-m.html/motte (710 words)

	RA: Resident Advisor - Dr Motte DJ Page
		Dr Motte has performed at various places across the globe, this is his official site.
		It features all you could want to know about Motte as well as a tonne of games and other crazy stuff...
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	www.residentadvisor.net /dj_view.asp?ID=96 (125 words)

	Dr. Motte - AOL Music
		Motte, Massimo, Tillmann Uhrmacher, Talla 2XLC, Da Hool, Mike MH4,...
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