Traps and Obstacles of a Castle Gatehouse and How They Developed | Anatomy of Castles

[@PickleRick65]

Great video 👌👍💪💪

[@catsmeow5566]

Thank you. This is very interesting.

[@srice8959]

I know that this is an old video, but it’s my first time seeing it. An it’s a really Great video with so much detail about the Castles 🏰 it’s the perfect balance between informative, but still keeps it moving with out the need to get weighed down and drawn out. Don’t get me wrong I also like videos that goes into a deep depth that are an hour or more long, but sometimes I just want to watch a 10-20 minute long video

[@coo4522]

This was really enjoyable and had good information in it. Thanks for posting!

[@McHaven07]

I didn't know that about the construction of main doors, the alternating wood grains. Very cool.

[@TrangDB9]

At some point attackers may just have said: screw the gatehouse, we're attacking the wall.

[@sadrapouya8529]

and then trenches said f*#@ you

[@edi9892]

1:08 I think that these were all small rock castles. They were either on top of a stone pillar, or carved into a softer rock (still, pretty high up, so that the enemy can't just carve into the castle). I'm not sure what their purpose was, but they were likely not residential, but lookouts, or similar.

[@cheeseandonions9558]

Amazing history class.. especially if you're a minecrafter looking for ideas..

[@rancidcrawfish]

Thanks for making it gae

[@robnewman6101]

Wow.

[@kinslowrainer3982]

Hi. I really enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work! I'm currently reading the book Castles: Their Construction and History by Sidney Toy, and I just finished the section on gatehouses a couple of days ago. Can I ask where you got some of the cross-section pictures of castles from? The very first picture of the video, for example, and also the image you used in the section on Harlech where you highlighted the keep and gatehouse in red. Thanks.

[@KobeanHistory]

Thanks! :) The first one is I got from this site: www.q-files.com/history/castles-knights/castle-gatehouse The second one you asked for I found on Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/pin/434315957800958264/ Medieval heritage is a good site as well, they got lots of illustrations of Welsh castles: medievalheritage.eu/en/main-page/heritage/wales/

[@kinslowrainer3982]

@@KobeanHistory Thanks. That Medieval Heritage site looks very interesting.

[@danwilson1040]

As everyone Knows the Moat was full of sharks and crocodiles but you forgot to mention that

[@edi9892]

Is there any evidence for portcullis being locked in place? You could do it almost the same way as a regular door with a beam... Similarly, I find it surprising that doors had only one beam to lock them in place. Especially when it's just one door on which the defense hinges, I'd put multiple beams across and perhaps even put beams leaning against it as well. I've seen an illustration from a Japanese gatehouse that had an interesting way of addressing the problem: It seems to have something akin to a drawbridge behind the door instead of a beam. When closed, the doors is supported by an entire battlement, which elevates the defenders so that they can look out of the bars of the door. Id didn't see any ropes or chains, so I'm not sure how it was moved in place, but it looked pretty solid.

[@julianrv8968]

Me gusta mucho este video está bien hecho

[@szymonkoodziejski3872]

Can someone explain to me how the portcullis never had a locking mechanism? It'd be enough just to place a beam blocking it from getting up. Did they just not think of that? Also why not make the first portcullis not a grate but a full on wooden door. Heavier and cant be easily grabbed to lift it up. Am I missing sth here?

[@robnewman6101]

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[@robnewman6101]

Would a Castle like to have five portcullis?

[@retroactivejealousy-worldl1805]

Great

[@robnewman6101]

The murder holes of Bodiam Castle.

[@Anomliz]

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[@gm2407]

I like how you assume the port cullis could be lifted up. It only requires a bit of wood to slide between two sides of the port cullis into slots and through a square gap and it can be locked in place from above.

[@KobeanHistory]

Do you have any examples of this? I suppose that could work depending on the type of portcullis but I haven’t found any records of a lock like that being used, if you know of any please let me know as I’d like to look into it.

[@gm2407]

@@KobeanHistory I lack the evidence of this, as what I stated is an alternative supposition, so I want to be clear I am not calling you out on the assumption as being wrong, just that there was a latteral option availavle . We know that it is effectively the same idea as barring a door with a beam which we do have evidence for. With beams pushed through from the guardhouse accross the door into the other guard house. Which Goodrich castle did for the gate as an example. Perhaps I am mistaken as the chace of people being able to escape when being stabbed and barraged in the killzone might not necessitate the need to lock the port cullis into place.

[@robnewman6101]

A sieged castle.

[@aaronsaunders6974]

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