. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. rman mound in front iscovered with shrubs and the shell is gone. In the days of our Normanand Angevin kings the owners of castles and their families occupied thekeep as the strongest part and the least likely to fall into an enemyshands. As years rolled on, and England became more peaceful and itsnobles more luxurious, the rougher quarters of their ancestors wereforsaken for more comfortable and commodious rooms built against thewall of the inner court, preferably where a precipice or artificial scarpingmade it fairly sa
. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. rman mound in front iscovered with shrubs and the shell is gone. In the days of our Normanand Angevin kings the owners of castles and their families occupied thekeep as the strongest part and the least likely to fall into an enemyshands. As years rolled on, and England became more peaceful and itsnobles more luxurious, the rougher quarters of their ancestors wereforsaken for more comfortable and commodious rooms built against thewall of the inner court, preferably where a precipice or artificial scarpingmade it fairly safe from a foemans attack. Castles built in the Tudorperiod like Raglan, Sudeley and Thornbury had very little militarystrength, and were more fitted for a life of ease and splendour than civil wars of the Roses and Stuarts were marked by battles in theopen field rather than by sieges of castles, because few could be heldagainst artillery. Cromwells soldiers made ruins of many a splendidhome that called itself a castle, but more from the love of destruction or i. South. G-ROUND PLAN OF KENILWORTH CASTLE
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