posted 01-12-2001 04:04 PM           

If you do mean brick than medieval bricks where longer and thinner than modern european bricks (medieval bricks being about 20cm x 10cm x 4cm) and had about 10% which where over-fired and dark in colour, often used in a decorative pattern in the wall.

The best known of the English brick castles is Herstmonceux - see http://www.sussexlife.co.uk/gils_guide/herstmonceux.html

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posted 01-14-2001 03:36 AM           

• Stone work varies from castle to castle depending on the local stone. The great Edwardian castles of North Wales tend to have darker longer and flater stones than the castles of southern England.
• Virtually all castles use several types of stone. A rough stone for the walls and a finer cut stone for around window and doors (and for the corners of square buildings).
  
• Where the rough stone work was particually rough or the castle was particually important the stone work may well be plaster over either with a smooth coat of lime-mortar or lime-mortar and gravel mix.
  
• Interior walls of rooms of any real importance were almost certainly plastered and painted with fairly simple pattens (White walls with horizontal red zig zags for example)
  
• Interior walls of any room with a fire will get smoke blackened fairly quickly, smoke blackening gets worse as you go up.
  

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posted 01-19-2001 10:10 AM           

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