Sunday, March 4, 2012

The Peak Castle

Peak Castle, Castletown, about 1100 AD

This is a model of how the layouts of the castle was around 900 years ago. It had steep hills on all sides and was probably more or less impossible to conquer without a long siege ahead of taking the castle itself.

Peak Castle 2012



This is what it looks like now





Peak Castle 1106 AD








And this is what it probably looked like when it was new




Peak Castle, the main building 2012

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