Linear castle
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linear-castle-193-3851728
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Linear castle
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A linear castle is a castle that was designed to confront its attackers with a series of barriers/impediments in a line. The principle was to funnel assaulting forces into attacking a very narrow front and focusing all of the castle's defences in that area. This would mean that both architectural devices and manpower could be concentrated, unlike the more familiar concentric castle, for which the entire circumference needed to be defended. Linear castles tended to be built where geography favour
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2021-11-21T14:00:02Z
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