RUTH GOODMAN: This is how many of us think of the interior of castles. Bare stone, echoey, damp, gritty underfoot, but that's because we're used to ruins.When they were in use, back in the 13th ...

If you look at a medieval castle, you can very often see little stone extensions built out from the walls. The waste matter fell into the moat below. Even some several hundred years after they ...

Inside a medieval castle. videoInside a medieval castle Those cold stone walls need some cheering up! Ruth Goodman, Tom Pinfold and Peter Ginn discover that medieval castles were lavishly ...

Thousands of visitors flock to the castle each year to kiss the stone, though the medieval fortress with ... lakes and wooded ...