Today’s Castles

Class 6

 When the cannon came into use it made castles redundant as they could be easily

breached.So we don’t build Castles any more

or do we?

Defence in Depth

•A castle has many hurdles to overcome before reaching the centre, there is the moat, castle walls, draw bridge, inner walls and towers. These together are defence in depth. Today security facilities use the same idea with perimeter fencing, watch towers, guarded entrances and buildings with their own security.

Turrets

• Tanks use the idea of turrets (a section that sticks out) instead of having a hole to fire arrows from the turret has a gun.

Virtual Castles

• Computer are protected using the same defence in depth idea, you have firewalls, web filters, antivirus, usernames and passwords. These protect the information on phones, PC’s and tablets the same way castles protected people.

Coast Line Castles

• Castles are used to protect the coast line such as Edward I Castles in Wales. The same idea was used in by Germany in World War 2 to protect the coast line of France from invasion by the allies.

Your home as a Castle

•Today home have gates (front door), guards( burglar alarms), portholes (windows) which use locks.

Defence in Depth 2

• Electric fences are the modern day equivalent of castle walls to stop people getting into where there should not be.

Castles at the centre of life

• Castles could have markets, festivals and theatre. Also people felt safe around them so wanted to live close to them. So city centres grew around them like this picture of Lincoln castle.

A long time ago in a galaxy far,far away….