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Forum:	Medieval Life And Culture
Topic:	Accessible water

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DCisabadass Did Castles have water accessible on all floors? Please explain.
Erik Schmidt The short answer is NO!
Having said that, there were some keeps in which the well or cistern was accessible from at least the first two floors.
The people of the middle ages did not engineer for water supply like the Romans before them did. I know of no castle which had gravity fed water supply to the buildings to more than one or two points within the castle. Most relied on hauling water from a well or cisterns.
Crak de Chevaliers in Syria has an aqueduct, but this is not common.
Erik
Merlin Some castles had a system of wooden pipes to gather the rain-water from different roofs and lead it to the cistern. Most castles had one or two wells in the courtyard or inside a small wellhouse. If the castle was built on a hill, the well is often very deep (60 meters or even more).
So, the only direct access to water was at those wells or cisterns. But water was also stored – for use in the kitchen or in a bathhouse etc.
angelbaby9 Hi
The anser is No!!!
Because the urin and stool went inside there water source
Merlin Not realy – the materials you mentioned normaly fell into the ditch outside the castle.