British castles: everything you wanted to know
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The Technology of Attack and the Technology of Defense
Mark Morris: It's very, very remarkable how many times Stephen starts a siege, invests a castle, and then gets bored with it. He says the technology of attack catches up in the 13th century when you're going to get is going to be easier to break into these buildings. "You can always undermine them. I dig under the foundations," King John does after seven weeks of siege in Rochester in 1215.
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