How was castles in medieval times made?
Most castles started out as a mont and bailey. A mont and bailey is a wooden structure built on a higher hill in the area. It had a wooden wall around it and inside would be a main house/structure, barns, and areas for animals. When gun power was introduced to Europe this had to change so they changed the wooden walls to stone. Actually it was a faux wall. They left the wooden part and added stone in front of it. They made walls with a stone front and between the wooden wall and the stone wall they put in the bits and pieces of the construction materials as a filler so that it looked solid. William the Conqueror changed castles forever. He built stone towers that were hard to attack and could be defended. From the stone towers came the shapes we know of castles. Castles became status symbols and a show of power and money as well as for defense.
