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@@PolicyInsightHub no?

What do you think people prefer, a focus on the stories and people's of these castles, or a focus on the design and engineering of these places.

@@CrazyAboutCastles-ly5pw I'm honestly torn between both. Probably leaning a little more towards the engineering for me. The hidden secrets, the untold mysteries and that sort of thing. It's generally a little less well known and it adds so much character and fascination to a place

@@jameslefley I tend to agree, there's always little nuggets of information and details that you only learn on tours at these places, I try to remember all the ones I learn

My next video I will include floor plan with walls and mark where walls are this thick, normally its around a large deep window on the ground floor. Most of the wall for keeps are about 3m though. With Norham it is ground floor on south side of keep facing away from the river. I made a 3d model from scale floorplans and they were around 7m thick for Norham at its thickest part.

@@OldSkoolWax yes correct it was successfully captured fully 4 times, and a few more occasions the out bailey was captured. I have detailed every single one of these In the video?. Sorry about the confusion of the title, what I mean by couldn't conquer is that they never held onto the castle. For me the historic intrigue was the constant and ongoing sieges from Scotland over the course of centuries from the 12th to 16th century.

It's overlooked by the fact that very few people know its history outside historians Sorry you don't like the accent, still experimenting with all the styles.

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 I assume you are talking about the western bailey, not loads is known about it, it would have been and additional area pre the norman stone keep, but when the stone keep and eastern stone walls were built it was not as far as m aware upgrades. So would have just been a wooden pallisade and other structures

@@CrazyAboutCastles-ly5pw I wasn't very clear in my question. I was referring to what looks like a long stone structure above and parallel to the castle in the inner bailey. And it has a low white fence around it.

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 odd i definitely wrote about it, i must have somehow forgotten to put it into the video, forgive me it was one of my earlier videos, but it is an old Norman church which predates the castle and wasn't actually discovered until the 19th century when excavated as it was well buried, built roughly in the year 1100. I have mentioned it a few times in my full castle blog page here... crazyaboutcastles.com/english-castles/castle-rising-castle/ probably quite a few things i missed in my blog post as i was trying to keep videos shorter.

@@CrazyAboutCastles-ly5pw Its all good. I appreciated your video. I am very interested in these early castles as well as cathedrals and churches in England. I hope to return some day soon.

I can't find anything made on this, except a few blogs and some TH-cam videos cover it briefly in part of of a general corfe castle travel vlog

ill keep them coming, I have barely started, there are quite literally thousands of castles across europe, all with fascinating history behind them.

Several of my ancestors originated from Scotland, Ireland and England. My maiden name is McCormick. I heard there used to be a castle, but I believe it’s long gone. I have been trying to remember the details about a family whose staircase curved backwards because they were all left handed and it gave them an advantage. Can’t remember the name though. I like hearing about the people who lived in the castle and what happened to them. It’s really interesting. 😊❤️

@@NanaBren interesting, and very plausible, staircases in a castle typically built clockwise, as most people right handed, meaning an invader walking up would have his sword catching against the central wall, where as the defender above would have full motion of his sword on the outside. So they could have commissioned it the other way if they were all left handed, however it would mean both the defender and invader would be able to use their sword on the outside. The steps were often irregular height to make them trip up.

@@NanaBrenWas it Forter? th-cam.com/video/DqVE6gbKkJc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=6okllAgPwxmiYBkB

@@CrazyAboutCastles-ly5pw Those myths about staircases are not true. For military purposes a tower has a ladder not a staircase because it is cheaper and more effective as you can pull it up after you. Staircases occurred in castles only because most of the time they were domestic quarters and only rarely used for actual defence, so a staircase was more appropriate. Just because one is right handed does pot prevent them using the sword in the left hand if required and the attacker being lower down than the defender would have an advantage fighting on a staircase as the attackers lower body would be very hard to strike from above, but the defenders feet and limbs would be exposed. You can try it for yourself and you will see in actual reality this is true. Finally stairs were often uneven, even in completely domestic buildings well into the 19th century. They were standardised in order to improve efficiency through mechanised production, thus reducing costs and as a health and safety measure. But deliberately uneven staircases were not an effective military design since a ladder is more effective and being deliberately uneven would mean causing a deliberate risk to the lord and his family while living there, so the design flaw was accidental not deliberate.

Plan is to do them all, currently working on a well known Welsh castle

Thanks for spotting l, I changed the title the other day and didn't see the typo I made

That's why I like them, almost impossible to imagine such buildings being built ever again

I used an image of a different portcullis when explaining what one is, so it may well be

Thanks, though it takes time, so I'll keep going and improve quality and research as I progress

I think that's why it's so popular, if you look at the 2013-2014 Lego castle, it looks like Bodiam

Any ghost footage you have I can feature in my videos and accredit you with link and in video mention

i dont have any video with any, but i do have pictures @@CrazyAboutCastles-ly5pw

Thank you , appreciate that you enjoyed

there's so many throughout the UK, I didn't realise how many until I started this Hobby, I have a list of about 400 castle sites

We have a list of about 422 place to visit

Thanks took me 2 months to learn blender, do the castle 3d and then put it together with maps etc.. hopefully skills I can take forward to next video

If anyone knows his fate please comment, it didn't come up in research

Your welcome

Thanks

I like to call into a few my self to do a flog of them nowhere near your knowledge like hahaha but love the old history of them I was at TANTALLON in Scotland not long sgo cracking rake around it cheers

Theres something like 400 castle sites around England Scotland Wales,most of which have little historic research, other than some obscure blogs , even Wikipedia is lacking in detail on most of them, hopefully as these videos get better the history will spread