Situated on a forested hilltop in northern Germany, Sparrenburg Castle has towered overthe surrounding city for over 700 years. But, as archaeologists were recently reminded, even such a prominent ...

Holmes: Well, toilets, or garderobes as they were called, usually were situated so that they opened over the moat. If you look at a medieval castle, you can very often see little stone extensions ...

The waste would fall down a chute and into the moat or a cess pit ... for you to learn that many people living in and around Medieval castles would have had clean teeth! This is because they ...

The 15th century castle is one of the oldest and grandest brick buildings in the country and is a great day out for the ...