After victory at the Battle of Hastings, William and his Normans worked their way through England and Wales. As they progressed, they built wooden Motte and Bailey castles to defend themselves against rebellious Saxons.

Today, we looked at the features including a keep, a motte, a bailey, a ditch and the palisade fencing. We also scouted for appropriate land to build castles on and identified positive and negative reasons for each area.

Finally, we constructed our own Motte and Bailey castles, trying to include as many features  as possible.