Motte-and-Bailey
An earth-mound with wood or stone keep, surrounded by ditched and palisade enclosure (or courtyard).
motte-and-bailey
A defensive system consisting of a mound of earth (the motte) with a wooden tower on top, placed within a courtyard (the bailey, also called the ward). Compare with keep
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MOTTE-AND-BAILEY CASTLE: An early form of castle with a wooden or stone keep.
ORATORY: A small private chapel usually in a house
PALACE: The official residence of a sovereign.
Motte-and-Bailey
earth-mound with wood or stone keep and an adjoining courtyard with a ditch and palisade
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The old motte-and-bailey castles were generally wooden stockades. As power was consolidated, the richer Norman lords built round stone walls on top of their mottes which were thus rendered fireproof.
Norman Barons built timber castles on earthen mounds, beginning the development of motte-and-bailey castles, and great stone churches in the Romanesque style of the Franks. By 950 they were building stone keeps.
BaileyAn enclosure defended by a ditch and palisade, usually as part of a motte-and-bailey castle.Balance beam(Canals): Beam projecting horizontally for opening and closing lock gates.
Motte: A mound of earth on which a tower was built; artificial conical earth mound (sometimes an old barrow) for the keep Motte-and-bailey: A defensive system consisting of a mound of earth (the motte) with a wooden tower on top, ...
 See also: Motte, Bailey, Architecture, Castle, Church
  
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