Castle

A Castle refers to a medieval European fortress (though the term is also applied to a variety of non European fortresses as well), usually used as the residence and seat of power of some noble household. Castles are distinct from fortified towns and cities with walls, though towns often grew around castles and castles called citadels were sometimes constructed specifically. The word comes from the Latin castrum, referring to the fortified bases in which the Romans stationed their legions.

Parts of a Castle

• Walls
• Moats
• Turrets
• Keep
• Armories
• Granaries
• Dungeons: A castle's prison, generally kept underground in the basement. As a rule, people did not stay in a dungeon for long in the middle ages. The penalties of medieval justice were either to the effect of fines, some community service or public humiliation or death in various levels of painfulness with little in between. Dungeons were used mainly to store people temporarily until the real punishment happened, or to house captured enemy soldiers being ransomed.
  • Some of the dungeons that went overboard with the torture equipment could easily have been /d/ungeons.
• Traps (burning oil from above, giant boulder, spike walls and stuffs)
• Kitchens
• Rest room (knights needs to poop you know?)
• Parapets

Types of Castles

• Motte and Baily: A fairly basic type of castle in the Dark Ages. A hall of either stone or wood (the Baily) is built on top of a hill, a basic wooden wall is put around it, at the base of the hill was built some stabled and similar which were also walled off. In some cases the wall (the Motte) circled both, in other cases there were two rings of walls around both the hall as well as the support structures, with a walled off corridor between them.

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