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Assessment Report
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Shell Keep
editIn English castle morphology, shell keeps are perceived as the successors to motte-and-bailey castles, with the wooden fence around the top of the motte replaced by a stone wall. Castle engineers during the Norman period did not trust the motte to support the enormous weight of a stone keep. A common solution was to replace the palisade with a stone wall then build wooden buildings backing onto the inside of the wall. This construction was lighter than a keep and prevented the walls from being undermined meaning they could be thinner and lighter.
Examples include the Round Tower at Windsor Castle and Clifford's Tower at York Castle.[1][2][3]
- Brown, Reginald Allen (1989). Castles from the air:Cambridge air surveys (illustrated ed.). CUP Archive. p. 52. ISBN 0-521-32932-9.
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(help) - Darvill, Timothy; Stamper, Paul; Timby, Jane (2002). England: an Oxford archaeological guide to sites from earliest times to AD 1600 (illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 196. ISBN 0-19-284101-7.
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(help) - Pettifer, Adrian (2002). English Castles: A Guide by Counties (illustrated ed.). Boydell & Brewer. p. 7. ISBN 0-85115-782-3.
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- ^ Pettifer 2002, p. 7.
- ^ Darvill, Stamper & Timby 202, p. 196.
- ^ Hull 2006, p. 99.