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Great of Tuesday, April 17th

10:30am-12 noon in the Winn Room

A virtual travelogue of castles from the 9th to 15th centuries

Presented by Scott Farrell, founder and director of Today. With over 30 years of experience in the fields of arms, armor, and medieval , he has been involved with independent study programs at the Royal Armories at Leeds, and with (the department of the Welsh government in charge of preserving castles and other historical monuments). 640 Orange Avenue Coronado, CA 92118 619-522-7390 Made possible by A ’s Tour

Come and take a virtual trip through some of the greatest medieval castles of England (and some marvelous lesser-known ones too) as author and history expert Scott Farrell gives you his “knight’s eye” view of the function, tactics, and architecture behind these fascinating monuments. You’ll also get an up-close look at various items of replica arms and armor as you learn how to design, defend, and maintain a (and the surrounding manor) just as a medieval lord or lady would.

Castle Trivia

One of the longest of a castle was that of Donnington Castle located in Berkshire England. It lasted from July 1644 to April 1646. The at Bridgnorth Castle, leans at 17 degrees, three times further than the Leaning of Pisa. The first castle in Britain to be designed specifically for defense by guns was Ravenscraig Castle located in Scotland. Built in 1460. New Buckenham Castle keep is the largest in diameter to be found in England. The largest castle in England is . Being 80ft tall and 80ft in diameter at the top, Haughley Castle is one of the largest mottes in Britain. keep rises to 115ft, making it the tallest Norman keep in Britain. One of the earliest surviving stone castle in England is at Castle. It was built in 1068. Castle, begun in 1068, is one of the very first stone castles in Britain. All the inhabitants of Cainhoe Castle, in Bedfordshire England, died due to the "Black Death". Anstey Castle motte, in Hertfordshire England, survived a crash of an American bomber in 1944. One of the largest castle in England is , located in Warwickshire. During a siege of Kenilworth Castle in 1266 the defenders were forced to surrender, after six months, due to dysentery. The spiral stairs in castle are designed to ascend clockwise as to make the attackers expose more of their body in order to use the sword in their right hand. For a Christmas feast in 1206 at Winchester Castle, King John's orders to the sheriff included 1,500 chickens, 5,000 eggs, 20 oxen, 100 pigs, and 100 sheep. Expenses at Caernarfon Castles included 7d for a watchmen to blow his horn to signal the beginning and end of the worker's shift. At Exeter Castle, in 1136, the garrison used wine to extinguish fires from a siege. In 1150 there were an estimated 1,115 unlicensed castles in Britain.