Over the Jubilee holiday, there were lots of events going on at the local historic sites and one of them was a re-enactment of a castle siege at Caerphilly castle just north of Cardiff in the Village of Caerphilly. Caerphilly is a massive castle (biggest in Wales and second biggest in Britian next to Windsor castle) complete with round towers and a moat! A great example of military architecture of the times. Also, unlike many of the other large castles in Wales this one was not built by the English to repress those pesky welsh from uprising. It was built by a weathly Norman to defend his lands.
There was also some interesting demonstrations of the larger siege engines and some of the smaller weapons. These demonstrations were on because of the holiday and not normally there. The cross bow is the new favorite weapon for the boys.
They also learned how money was made back in the day - each coin hammered out by hand.
