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AlexSB I am doing a project on castles.(year 7) We have covered Motte and Bailey, curtain wall and concentric but now are doing 16th century. Did they have a particular name i.e motte & bailey and what were the disadvantages? I expect the good points were better built etc!! Thank you for your help!!
Paul By the 16th century castles, in the traditional sense, were no longer
being built.
Although sometimes called castles,what was being built in their
place were really fortresses, and older conventional castles where
being modernised to be more comfortable residences with alterations
such as larger windows.
The castles at Deal and Upnor in Kent were built for only military
purposes while some of the "castles" that the Tudors erected would
not pose much of an obstacle to a persistant burglar.
The age of castles as Royal or Baronial centres of administration was over.

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T O P I C R E V I E W
AlexSB	I am doing a project on castles.(year 7) We have covered Motte and Bailey, curtain wall and concentric but now are doing 16th century. Did they have a particular name i.e motte & bailey and what were the disadvantages? I expect the good points were better built etc!! Thank you for your help!!
Paul	By the 16th century castles, in the traditional sense, were no longer being built. Although sometimes called castles,what was being built in their place were really fortresses, and older conventional castles where being modernised to be more comfortable residences with alterations such as larger windows. The castles at Deal and Upnor in Kent were built for only military purposes while some of the "castles" that the Tudors erected would not pose much of an obstacle to a persistant burglar. The age of castles as Royal or Baronial centres of administration was over.