10-16-2015, 12:57 PM
(10-16-2015, 11:47 AM)michaelsean Wrote: OK Bebbanburg is nothing like I pictured it. I pictured a large stone fortress on a cliff hanging over a crashing ocean. This one is wooden and sits on a gentle slope. And the sun never shines.
Not exactly, but akin to this:
![[Image: mysterious-medieval-castle.jpg]](http://medievalcastles.stormthecastle.com/images/mysterious-medieval-castle.jpg)
I get what you're saying. I knew it would be wooden, stone fortresses weren't a thing for a couple hundred more years. William was the one that really brought the whole castle building craze to England. Stone fortresses were not all that common at the time of Alfred. What stone structures did exist were often remnants of Roman engineering.
That being said, the placement is wrong from what I was thinking. After all, we are talking about this site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamburgh_Castle
Just he wooden fort that existed prior to this Norman castle.
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