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Every picture here (the castle side view, the bird’s-eye plan, the cross-section through a motte, the four building steps, the timber-to-stone drawing, the ringwork comparison, the logo, the favicon and the share image) is our own original, simplified drawing. They are not reconstructions or scale plans, and they are not traced or copied from any site plan, museum image, guidebook or the Bayeux Tapestry. Only the labelled parts come from the sourced facts in each caption.

Charts and tables are our own layouts of figures quoted from the sources listed. Useless the eraser is the network’s own mascot. Fonts: Bricolage Grotesque, Newsreader and Kalam (SIL Open Font Licence), served from this site.

Not affiliated with English Heritage, Cadw, Historic Environment Scotland, Historic England, The National Archives, the Bayeux Museum, Britannica or any museum. Their names, and the names of the castles they look after, are used only to identify the places and sources discussed. All pictures are our own simplified drawings: not reconstructions, not scale plans, and not copied from any site plan or from the Bayeux Tapestry.