Week 6: Medieval palaces, castles, and forts

        High status sites and palaces
 
• Graham-Campbell and Valor 334-339 and 342-362
• see a brief presentation of crannogs (and a reconstruction of a crannog in Scotland)
• see a reconstruction of Yeavering, a seventh-century palatial complex in Northumbria, and a panorama of the Yeavering site
• see an aerial view of Ostrów Lednicki
• visit Slöinge, a high status site in southwest Sweden
• visit Westminster Palace (facade, plan, and interior vaults) and Nonsuch Palace


Donjons, mottes, keeps, castles , forts, and earthen ramparts
 

• Crabtree 41-43, 43-46, 71-73, 78-80, 233-234, and 344-347
  
• Graham-Campbell and Valor 323-334 and 339
  
• see the image of an eleventh-century motte in the Bayeux Tapestry and a reconstruction of a medieval motte-and-bailey fortification
  
• see an image of the earliest castle, the keep of Doué-la-Fontaine
• see examples of portcullis (Edinburgh Castle), bailey,and barbican (Trim Castle, Ireland)
• for an example of kitchen range, see the plan of Skenfrith Castle
• visit three castles in Wales: Dolforwyn, Dryslwyn, and Montgomery
• see the the Edlingham Castle in Northumberland, Hadleigh Castle in Essex (England), and Château Gaillard in Eure (France, with plan)
• see also the Crusader castle of Krak des Chevaliers (Homs, Syria)
• see an aerial view of the Tower of London
• visit also the Moravian hillfort at Breclav-Pohansko,  the Viking stronghold at Trelleborg, the Polish hillfort at Grzybowo
• see a map and a picture of Offa's Dike, the inscription on the Pillar of Eliseg, and an aerial view of Danevirke