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 - A mound of earth on which a tower was built; artificial conical earth mound (sometimes an old barrow) for the keep
Motte-&-bailey - Earth mound with wood or stone keep, surrounded by ditched and palisaded enclosure (or courtyard).
Motte
- a steep sided mound surmounted by a keep or other defendable structure which formed the central feature of early castles.
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MOTTE: A high mound of earth on which a lord's residence is placed ussually during the eleventh-and-twelfth-century castles.
MOTTE-AND-BAILEY CASTLE: An early form of castle with a wooden or stone keep.
Motte: an earthwork mound on which a castle was built
Murder Holes: a section between the main gate and a inner portcullis where arrows, rocks, and hot oil could be dropped from the roof though holes
Oilette: a round opening at the base of a loophole ...
Motte
a mound, often man-made, on which a castle was built
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Motte & bailey castle: See bailey, motte.
Mudéjar merlon: A merlon which was built with a pointed apex, typical of mudéjar fortified architecture. See moorish merlon, pointed merlon.
A keep built in the form of a high, circular or many-sided wall which encloses the area at the motte top and which has the domestic buildings adjoining the inside of the wall. The old motte-and-bailey castles were generally wooden stockades.
In 1051 he brought in Norman knights who built "motte" castles as a defence against the Welsh.
Motte-and-baileyPost-Roman and Norman defence consisting of an earthen mound (motte) topped by a wooden tower within a bailey, an enclosure defended by a ditch and palisade, and also, sometimes, by an internal bank.Mouchette ...
 See also: Bailey, Castle, House, Tower, Masonry
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