Castles Through TimeIn this exciting book about castles, kids can use the thumb indexes to zoom through time minutes, days, years, or sometimes even centuries from one page to the next. |
Contents
The Year 600 | 6 |
The hilltop site is a perfect place for a new fort from 18 A Few Weeks Later | 12 |
Another 250 Years Later | 26 |
Common terms and phrases
100 years later area or settlement arrow loops arrows or drop arrows were fired attack bailey baron Battering ram battlements BC AD Bedroom belfry Blacksmiths build a castle Building wooden hoardings built castle home castle walls castle's defenders catapult Celts Chapel conquered cross the ditches days later 100 Drawbridge drop missiles Dubbing ceremony earth called enemy soldiers entrance Falconer FAST FORWARD Castles fences Gatehouse Gateway Grain store Palisade guards guests hall hill fort hilltop Information board Inner courtyard inside the walls keep knights lands later 30 later MA 250 lime wash live lord and lady lord's mangonel Master mason Middle Ages motte motte-and-bailey murder holes Noble families Normans Outer courtyard Outer curtain plastered Portcullis powerful protect ramparts repair Roman roof rooms ruins shoot arrows siege Stables stone castle stone walls surrounded thick Treadwheel trebuchet village visit the castle walls and towers weeks later Wet hides wooden frame ག ག