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Natasha Vartoukian Member |
posted 12-28-98 10:13 AM
  
I am doing a project on castles and one of my headings is shell keeps. I am having extreme difficulty finding out any info on this subject. I would be grateful for any information, a.s.a.p |
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Betsy Member |
posted 12-30-98 05:40 PM
According to the book EXPLORE A CASTLE by Brian Davison, shell keeps are the "stone walls round the tops of mottes....The great tower on top of the motte at Windsor is a shell keep, though most people who go there do not realise this....Shell keeps stayed in fashion from about AD 1100 until about AD 1180." The author further says that these stone walls replaced the wooden walls that were originally on top of the motte (or hill). Houses were built inside the wall and attached to it, with a courtyard in the middle. The web site http://www.radix.net/~mfeinberg/castles/ has a definition also, as well as an illustration of a motte and bailey castle which was the forerunner of shell keeps. |
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