How far does the site of Raglan castle and the supporting sources help you to understand the way that castles changed and developed between the 11th and 16th centuries?

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Heather Bosworth 10E2

How far does the site of Raglan castle and the supporting sources help you to understand the way that castles changed and developed between the 11th and 16th centuries?

Raglan castle and the supporting sources help me to understand the way that castles changed and developed between the 11th and 16th centuries. To some extent, the sources show us some of the development from a motte and bailey to a concentric castle. However, from Raglan castle, we can’t see the development from the motte and bailey to a concentric because Raglan is a courtyard castle design from the 1400’s onwards

Castles got more and more defensive and stronger, but when we look at Raglan castle, we can’t see a big change in the development from a motte and bailey to a concentric castle. The reasons why castles got less defensive were because of the use of gunpowder, so castles got destroyed a lot easier. We can see this from the great tower. There is a large chunk of it missing.

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 As a result of this, castles went from using wood from the motte and bailey to using stone and then brick. You could see the brick and stone at Raglan castle as they were both used in the site.

Also the change in luxury had increased a lot and we could see this by looking at the fireplaces and luxuries by looking at the ruins. Castles also increased in size from 1000-1599, so this allowed more luxury.

Raglan castles defensive features had developed from ...

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