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Barry Beverage Member |
posted 12-30-2005 11:17 PM
  
Does anyone know of drawings of plans for the system of raising and lowering a castle drawbridge? We want to construct a small but usable one for our medieval project, and I would like the mechanism to be somewhat historical. ------------------ |
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Maria Moderator |
posted 12-31-2005 04:36 AM
http://www.castles.org/architecture/architecture_19.htm http://www.castles-of-britain.com/castlesp.htm Not the best of images...hope it helps |
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Paul unregistered |
posted 12-31-2005 05:47 PM
I'm really struggling with this one, I've scoured the web and can find very little. It could possibly be a subject that has been somewhat neglected and deserves some more research.
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Peter Moderator |
posted 01-01-2006 05:03 AM
Hi, sure I have some good ones in an Italian castle journal. Just give me a day or so to find it. Also published a lengthy article on Caerphilly castle some time back. Where I'm sure the writer covered the topic at that castle. Just trying to think of the Italian name .. Pontlevato, or something like that. Peter |
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Barry Beverage Member |
posted 01-01-2006 03:57 PM
Appreciate it!!! ------------------ |
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kbines Member |
posted 02-24-2006 06:29 AM
Hi, I'm also trying to build a drawbridge and any ideas on plans and how to's would be greatly appreciated. Drawbridge is going to be used in a wooden play tree fort that I have built. [This message has been edited by kbines (edited 02-24-2006).] |
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Levan Moderator |
posted 03-02-2006 01:24 PM
"Castles: Their Construction and History" by Sydney Toy has some excellent diagrams of drawbridges. This book might be old, but it's a classic and hard to be beaten for this type of thing. Levan |
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jane dickey Member |
posted 03-16-2006 01:02 PM
David Macaulay"s book "Castle" Has a good picture and discription of how a weighted drawbridge works. There is enough information so that you could put one together. Jane Dickey |
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