Building Castles

Earliest castles were built  of earthworks and timber. But as centuries went on castles were starting to be built out of stone. Unlike modern times, the medieval times had no power tools, cranes, or bulldozers to build their castles. Sounds like hard work doesn't it? Well it was, can you imagine building something as large as a castle with your hands and the limited tools you have such as a saw, a mallet, a chisel, and an ax. Usually the work to build a castle included lifting loads, digging trenches, mixing up mortar for the walls and raising the walls. Building a castle took ALOT of work, ad ALOT of time. Sometimes it would take up to 10-20 years to complete