INTRODUCTION TO CASTLES

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|Dunkirk and the Channel sea battle was controlled. |

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|Warwick Castle |

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|Location: Warwick Country |

|Warwick Castle was founded in 1068 and was rebuilt and updated a |

|number of times. Today it combines castle ruins, largely of the |

|fourteenth century with one of the finest great houses in England. |

|Two small projecting towers, which date to the late fifteenth century|

|are said to have built as artillery platforms. Warwick Castle rises |

|like a precipice above the River Avon. On this natural cliff William |

|I founded a motte castle in 1068, on lands seized from a nearby Saxon|

|convent. A wooden tower built on the motte was evidently still there |

|in the reign of Henry II, by which time a polygonal shell enclosure |

|had been raised round the motte top. Only fragments of the shell |