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| | | (...) (URL) Raglan Castle> in Wales is made with red and yellow sandstone. (URL) Castle>, (URL) Craignethan Castle>, and (URL) Duntreath Castle> in Scotland are made with yellow sandstone. (URL) Kenilworth Castle> in England is made of red (...) (20 years ago, 10-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Official KK and HP 2004 pictures —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | (...) I didn't say it wasn't used - it was just more prevalent elsewhere than in Europe. But all well-sited, castle-builders used whatever was handy. -->Bruce<-- (20 years ago, 11-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Official KK and HP 2004 pictures —James Stacey
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| | | | Certainly there are a number of castles in south wales and the borders areas made like raglan, of sandstone. They look odd after hundreds of years of weathering as the bricks themselves have worn down but the mortar hasn't (20 years ago, 11-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: Official KK and HP 2004 pictures —Aaron West
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| | | | (...) That is a true point, castle stone is not something anybody in antiquity imported very much of. The labor and time needed to build from foreign stone would have made a military fortification moot. Often if it was a border dispute, they'd just (...) (20 years ago, 11-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: Official KK and HP 2004 pictures —David Laswell
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| | | | (...) Two other points to consider are that if you're building fortresses to defend your borders from neighboring countries...who exactly are you going to import stone from? Also, if you're trying to build something quickly with stone, you can (...) (20 years ago, 11-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: Official KK and HP 2004 pictures —Aaron West
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| | | | (...) Yes, if it is for a unstable border, the walls would not be so much to keep the enemy out as to slow them down as they try to wipe your force out of the territory. Most of these in England that were built after 1066 had the purpose of housing (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
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