Situated on a forested hilltop in northern Germany, Sparrenburg Castle has towered overthe surrounding city for over 700 years. But, as archaeologists were recently reminded, even such a prominent ...

Scotney Castle sits on its own island in Kent and is surrounded by a huge moat with walled gardens and a Victorian mansion house. The romantic fortress is found outskirts of Royal Tunbridge Wells ...

Holmes: Well, toilets, or garderobes as they were called, usually were situated so that they opened over the moat. If you look at a medieval castle, you can very often see little stone extensions ...

The waste would fall down a chute and into the moat or a cess pit ... for you to learn that many people living in and around Medieval castles would have had clean teeth! This is because they ...