WorksheetsCastle Vocab
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
A wall with gaps along the top for firing arrows through
Battlement
Portcullis
Screen
Garderobe
The strongest and tallest place in the castle
Keep
Bailey
Moat
Gartderobe
A deep ditch around a castle filled with water
Portcullis
Motte
Moat
Battlement
An extra strong gatehouse
Bailey
Garderobe
Keep
Barbican
A courtyard in which the buildings stood
Tower
Bailey
Keep
Motte
A mound of earth on which keeps were built in early Norman castles
Moat
Motte
Portcullis
Bailey
A tough iron gate
Battlement
Portcullis
Drawbridge
Garderobe
A huge catapult
Siege tower
Tortoise
Battering ram
Trebuchet
A covered ladder for climbing walls
Mangonel
Siege tower
Trebuchet
Underminer
When an army surrounds a castle and waits for the enemy to surrender
Greek fire
Stage
Siege
Undermine
To dig beneath a castle's walls to make them collapse
Climb
Scale
Undermine
Siege
Used by soldiers to protect them as they dug under a castle’s walls
Battering ram
Tortoise
Garderobe
Mangonel
Place in the castle where you would collect water
Solar
Barbican
Well
Chapel
The name for a toilet area
Solar
Portcullis
Garderobe
Moat
To be stronger, how did the shape of towers change?
Round to square
Square to triangle
Square to round
Round to triangle
Funny guy in the castle
Gong farmer
Jester
Sheriff
Knight
The place where the forgotten prisoner was left
Solar
Chapel
Oubliette
Barbican
The direction that most spiral staircases went in?
Clockwise
Anti-clockwise
The person who cleans out the toilets
Constable
Gong farmer
Jester
Lord
The name of the most advanced castles that had two sets of walls, one higher than the other, and towers on each corner.
Sand
Motte and Bailey
Concentric
Keep
