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?

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 ...

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 ...