Skenfrith is way too small for what we have, but it's essentially the same idea as my earlier sketch: a ringwall around the island, and a solid central keep inside it.
Beaumaris looks cool, but it looks like it was all pretty much designed by one architect and built all at once (which, I believe is the case for many of the British castles: Britain went through a huge expansion in number and size of castles during a relatively short period of its history). I would prefer something a lot more "organic", like some of the mainland european castles.
Here's the Counts' Castle (Gravensteen) from my own hometown of Ghent:
You can get a nice virtual walk-through of the castle (click on the "EN" button for English).
Edit: hmm... seems like the walkthrough doesn't work too well in the English version. You may need to pick the NL or FR version to get all of it...
Beaumaris looks cool, but it looks like it was all pretty much designed by one architect and built all at once (which, I believe is the case for many of the British castles: Britain went through a huge expansion in number and size of castles during a relatively short period of its history). I would prefer something a lot more "organic", like some of the mainland european castles.
Here's the Counts' Castle (Gravensteen) from my own hometown of Ghent:
You can get a nice virtual walk-through of the castle (click on the "EN" button for English).
Edit: hmm... seems like the walkthrough doesn't work too well in the English version. You may need to pick the NL or FR version to get all of it...
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