Anonymous ID: e93f28 July 6, 2020, 3:52 p.m. No.9877774   🗄️.is 🔗kun

CASTLE ROCK

 

"For stone built castles the foundations would, wherever possible, been built directly onto the bedrock. "

 

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Castles_of_England/Construction_Techniques

 

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Choose your site carefully

 

It is crucial that you build your castle at a prominent site in a position of strategic importance

 

Castles were commonly erected on naturally prominent sites, usually commanding a landscape or a communication link, such as a ford, bridge or pass.

 

https://www.historyextra.com/period/norman/how-to-build-a-medieval-castle/

 

 

promontory |ˈprämənˌtôrē|

noun (plural promontories)

a point of high land that juts out into a large body of water; a headland: a rocky promontory.

• Anatomy a prominence or protuberance on an organ or other structure in the body.

ORIGIN

mid 16th century: from Latin promontorium, variant (influenced by mons, mont- ‘mountain’) of promunturium .

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