Hi! Today I am going to share about my innovation day project. It is a medieval castle with a working drawbridge!
Information about the first kind of castle!
The first kind of castle was made of wood. It had a wooden wall all around the castle. In the castle is a keep which is on a hill. Under the hill is a ditch. that ditch and hill is called a motte. The motte and keep is overloking a bailey.This kind of castle is called a motte and bailey castle.
Information about drawbridges!
drawbridges are made for defence! In the middle ages castles had a moat around the castle to cross the moat people used drawbridges. Drawbridges could be raised and lowered. When enemies came to the castle the pepole inside the castle riased the drawbridge so the enemy cant get in! To make the drawbridge move inside the castle is a big pully and gear system.
Serfs and Lords !
Serfs and Lords are different things: a serf is a servant for the lord . Lords are very rich people who own a lot of land.Often serfs spend most of there life on a farm and make food for the lord.Serfs live in mud houses. the house had one room!When the crops failed the lord blamed it on the serfs. After the crops failed the lord would take the limited amounT OF FOOD FOR HImSelf.
Knights!
It doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor, young men in the Middle Ages learned how to use a weapon.Foot soldiers learned to fight with an axe and a long spear called a pike. The best soldiers were knights.Knights were soldiers who fought on horseback.If you want to be a knight you need to pay for horses and armor. You also need to find someone to train you.Knights also make some money by looting and holding certain people for ransom.When you are being trained you start as a page then a squire then a knight.
Here is a link to my blog on pulleys!
hypothesis!
This is my hypothesis clic the video to watch!
Procedure!
This is a pitcher of me making my castle!
This is how i made my castle!
Results!
This is a tore of my finished castle!
Conclusion!
IN conclusion i did not make my pulley system how i planned.I had planned to put my pulley system on the tower.I planed by making a pulley on two wood pieces to hold the pulley and more wood to hold up the geer.the string would be attached to a holl in the middle of the geer and then I would wrap it around the geer then when I turned the geer the bridge would rise.
Instead of my pulley system on the towers I put the system in my castle.If you want to see the system look at my results video!
My castle design was the same as my hypothesis.
Self Reflection!
Looking back at my castle the one thing I would change is making rooms in my castle.