Talk:Shell keep

Excised from the article
I am moving this here for several reasons: If someone disagrees and wants to perform extensive cleanup and re-add it, be my guest. 71.200.140.35 (talk) 02:36, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) It's badly written, with egregious spelling and formatting errors.
 * 2) It was added in the wrong place, after the External references.
 * 3) It's not clear that this adds anything to the article itself.
 * 4) The submitter apparently lost interest before completing (or starting) his last improperly bulleted bullet point.  In other words, it's a sandbox experiment performed within a live article.
 * The strenghts of a stone keep are:
 * -They could not burn down
 * -The curtin wall (The wall that went aroud the motte)protecte what     ever was in side
 * -It could protect the people in side and it would be a place to flee in times of attack


 * The weaknesses of a stone keep are:
 * -The wall of the shell keep could be weakened during attack and if it is broken, attackers could get into the shell

Meaning of the word Shell
The article gives a link to describe a keep, but lacks a meaning (or etymology) of the word shell.

Are there budding volunteer(s) to fill in the gap yet, out there? Trafford09 (talk) 19:30, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Isn't it because the outer wall forms a shell against which the interior structures (hall, chapel, kitchen etc) are built? The trouble is I don't remember seeing it explained anywhere, it's just taken for granted in castle studies. Richard Nevell (talk) 21:12, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, Richard. I guess you're right. Maybe somebody will spot a source! Trafford09 (talk) 10:17, 6 September 2018 (UTC)