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Topic:	Castle Wall Design (stone and mortar composition)

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pennsylvanian Hello. I'm working on a school project which focuses more on the destruction than the creation of castles (sorry). Our group has designed and built a miniature Trebuchet and need to report on how effective it would be as a full scale model. This requires us to know both the composition and strength of the mortar used in castle-wall construction, along with the designs of castle walls. While the project neither specifies time period or location of construction, for simplicities sake I am going to focus on British castles of the 13th century. Any help on the construction and composition of castle walls would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Peter Phew !
You've picked a cracker there (no pun intended!).
This is quite an extensive field of knowledge, and I don't think we can cover it in enough depth here for you. I haven't looked, but I'm sure there is information in 'back-posts' that could help you.
There are so many variables involved with this one. And is a subject that has involved many people & places over the years.
And you must remember that it was not just these siege machines alone that brought walls down.
Undermining walls was also used to weaken them before a machine may be brought into action. And many were used merely to demoralise the garrison, than just to knock walls down.
ie; throwing rotten cattle inside, burning materials, heads of soldiers caught ... the list goes on. These items were far easier to get hold of than stones that had to be crafted to a certain size.
A siege could be a very long and expensive process.

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T O P I C R E V I E W
pennsylvanian	Hello. I'm working on a school project which focuses more on the destruction than the creation of castles (sorry). Our group has designed and built a miniature Trebuchet and need to report on how effective it would be as a full scale model. This requires us to know both the composition and strength of the mortar used in castle-wall construction, along with the designs of castle walls. While the project neither specifies time period or location of construction, for simplicities sake I am going to focus on British castles of the 13th century. Any help on the construction and composition of castle walls would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Peter	Phew ! You've picked a cracker there (no pun intended!). This is quite an extensive field of knowledge, and I don't think we can cover it in enough depth here for you. I haven't looked, but I'm sure there is information in 'back-posts' that could help you. There are so many variables involved with this one. And is a subject that has involved many people & places over the years. And you must remember that it was not just these siege machines alone that brought walls down. Undermining walls was also used to weaken them before a machine may be brought into action. And many were used merely to demoralise the garrison, than just to knock walls down. ie; throwing rotten cattle inside, burning materials, heads of soldiers caught ... the list goes on. These items were far easier to get hold of than stones that had to be crafted to a certain size. A siege could be a very long and expensive process.