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Hey Blog! Apologies for not posting for the last few weeks, it\u2019s been busy this year though I really should have made more time for Home Ed in a Shed. However, earlier in December, I visited Kenilworth castle, and the week before that was the archaeology Christmas Party session, and so together those two are the inspiration for what I\u2019ll be talking about today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young Archaeologists\u2019 Club (YAC) is something I have written about a lot; archaeology is one of my big interests. Every year, there is a Christmas party, which is mostly fun and games with a few bits of learning mixed in. It has an optional dress code where some of the members come in a historical costume, which has made for a peculiar gathering which looks like a whole load of time-travellers have appeared in the same room together \u2013 everyone from the Stone Age to the Second World War \u2013 and is a brilliantly fun event. Some people don\u2019t come from the past, but there is usually a small collection of history. Some of my past costumes have been Viking, Tudor, Anglo-Saxon, but this year I decided to get together with a friend who goes and make a joint costume. It all began with our surnames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mine is Bailey \u2013 probably a derogative of bailiff, one of the officials who served a lord of the manor and his knights. This friend\u2019s surname is Wilmott \u2013 I do not know it\u2019s etymology, but the last half \u2013 mott \u2013 provided a silly joke that we were mott and bailey (you know, like the early Norman style of castle called a motte and bailey) and perhaps we should go as a castle. She liked the idea, and so we arranged a day to meet up and create some gigantic cardboard hats!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I called on my resident senior structural engineer (AKA Dad \u2013 he is quite knowledgeable on stuff like this) and put forward my castle designs. Unlike real castles, their primary purpose was not to be strong enough to stand up to a battering ram, big enough to hold an entire community during a time of war, or almost indestructible so an attacking army couldn\u2019t break the walls. They did, however, need to fulfil one function of castles \u2013 to look impressive! My original idea was to make them from big disks of cardboard, fill papier-mache around in places, then put a lollipop fence and houses on the top, as well as having a large keep embedded in the taller, motte hat. And that\u2019s more or less how it was made!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We ditched the lollipops for cardboard for reasons of weight \u2013 having half a tonne of wood balanced on your head is never a particularly good example to set at a children\u2019s group! \u2013 and used paint rather than model railway resin on the duck pond, as it was easier and cheaper to do. I marked stones on the donjon<\/em> or keep with Sharpie, and we finished off the two separate hats with a reinforced cardboard bridge balanced in place once we had both put the hats on. It did look amazing and we had quite a laugh \u2013 and I\u2019m currently thinking about what we\u2019re going to go as next year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The two parts of the castle, in detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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While wearing a castle!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

A week or so after the party, I met up with family at Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire. This is a very famous castle \u2013 it is one that King John invested in and then ceded to the barons under the Magna Carta; it is where the Hundred Years War\u2019s second phase started, which led to Henry V\u2019s victory at Agincourt (see King Henry V<\/em>, scene III); where Robert Dudley tried to persuade Elizabeth I to marry him (he failed); it was held by royalists and slighted by parliamentarians in the civil war (which is an AWFUL waste of a castle!!!); and was a home for hundreds of people from its building in the 1100s to its current existence in the present day. Now it is an English Heritage castle, which means it is in good hands and is being looked after, after centuries of looking after other people within its walls. I certainly recommend it \u2013 you can still go up inside the castle proper, and some of the rooms still exist! The gatehouse was little damaged, so it has remained a residence till the last century, and is now a museum, the gardens are beautiful (even if it was winter and so there was not much when we visited), and the views are stunning. Also, it has an excellent little caf\u00e9 in the bailey, so be sure to try some of the cake!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The castle in view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Part of the keep<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Looking out from the walls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Merry Christmas!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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