AQA GCSE History · 8145
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GCSE History · key term
A fortified building controlling an entrance to a castle or town.
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A fortified building controlling an entrance to a castle.
Revise: Key Features and Defensive Layout of Kenilworth CastleAt the castle end of the causeway stood Mortimer’s Tower, the main medieval entrance. It formed part of King John’s stone defences of about 1210–15 and stood in front of a simpler twelfth-century gatehouse.
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