Just outside the castle walls, they discovered eight ... are shedding new light on what is believed to be the longest siege in medieval English history. In 1264, the Second Barons’ War ...

What a castle siege is How people prepared for a siege ... Use this drawing of a medieval trebuchet to help you. Image caption, Can you draw a trebuchet and label the different parts?

The stakes were stuck into the ground to form a barrier around the Royalist-controlled castle, which fell to Parliamentarian forces after a 10-day siege in ... in front of the medieval gatehouse ...

Sheffield Castle underwent a siege in 1644 as part of the civil war ... left behind by a steelworker in a cellar as well as medieval tokens and newly discovered castle walls as the site ...