Compton Castle

(3 image HDR).. Had a little halloween fun.. half baking this HDR image of a very rare medieval fortress.. which was home for nearly 600 years to the Gilbert family.. including.. Sir Humphrey Gilbert.. - half-brother to.. Sir Walter Raleigh..

 

Hope you like it.. have a great day & thanks for looking..

 

A little Info..

 

'The walls are three feet thick local limestone with red sandstone and Beer stone dressings'..

 

'Missiles could be dropped through ‘machicolations’ - projections from the roofline with slots in the floor'..

 

'The defensive curtain wall surrounding the castle is 7.3 metres high'..

 

'In 1583, in the name of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Humphrey Gilbert colonised Newfoundland'..

 

'Two years later his half brother, Sir Walter Raleigh, started planning the Roanoke Colony in North Carolina'..

 

'Sir Humphrey’s youngest son Raleigh Gilbert continued exploring, settling the Popham Colony in Maine in 1607'..

Done