| Castles
only began to be built in England after the
Conquest. The Normans built many to secure areas where they faced ,
but they also built castles as a show of .
The first castles were made of
and ,
and could be built extremely quickly.
The
most common early type was the and castle. These castles
consisted of a fort
on top of a man-made mound (the )
with an enclosed surrounding area (the )
defended by a tall wooden fence (the ).
A small community could live the
Bailey. Ditch and bank defences the
Motte and Bailey.
During
the century many castles were and
strengthened using instead
of wood. Many ideas for improving came from the east. castles
from the later middle ages show this. These castles had one enclosure
built inside another. More complicated saw
more and more walled enclosures inside one another, each improving the of
the castle even more. Edward I used castles like this to secure his
position in .
As new methods of developed
(such as the use of the )
the importance of the changed.
They rapidly became status symbols rather than having importance.
Some argue
that many castles were never anything but symbols,
and the use
of castles to show may
indicate this.
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