CASTLES Top things to look out for on a visit to our castles!

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1 GATEHOUSE 2 KEEP 3 ARROW LOOPS The gatehouse is at the entrance to The keep was sometimes built on These narrow windows were cleverly a castle. Castles sometimes needed to be well a mound of earth or ‘motte’. Most castle designed so that archers could shoot their defended, so gatehouses often had a drawbridge keeps had luxurious rooms for the castle arrows out at anyone attacking the castle, that could be raised in an attack, and they lord (or even the King!) and were often also while staying safely behind the stone walls helped control who could enter the castle. used as a prison. around the slit. See me at: Warkworth Castle See me at: Scarborough Castle See me at: Kenilworth Castle and Hermitage and Elizabethan Gardens 4 WELL 5 GARDEROBE 6 CURTAIN WALL Many medieval castles had a well. It A garderobe is a medieval toilet. It The curtain walls were an important was easier to get water from a well than had a wooden seat which was often over a part of the defences of a medieval castle. walking down to the river – especially during a chute in the wall. People would sit on or They were built very high to make them siege! Water was needed for cooking, cleaning, squat over the seat, and their waste would impressive and hard to climb over. Curtain washing, brewing beer and baking, and was drop down the chute into a pit at the bottom, walls had battlements and often there was a given to the knights’ horses for drinking. or outside the building. walkway around the top of the walls. See me at: Old Sarum See me at: Dover Castle See me at: Framlingham Castle

LOL! What’s a castle lord’s favourite pizza topping? Moat-zarella! 7 MOAT 8 WALL WALK While moats were an important part This walkway around the top of the of castle defences, they were a decorative castle walls allowed troops at the castle to see feature too! Adding a moat around the edge any attackers for miles around. At some of of a castle made it look impressive and our castles you can still walk around at the top beautiful to visitors. What do you think? of the walls – do you think you could spot an See me at: Pevensey Castle enemy approaching? See me at: Carisbrooke Castle