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Nottinghamshire’s finest motte and bailey castle

Visualising Laxton

Laxton Castle

 

 

 

 

 

The first phase of the castle at Laxton (motte and inner bailey) reconstructed using the Medieval Total War game engine by Activision (as used by the BBC for the series Time Commanders).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laxton castle, 3D model based on the castle survey and using details from the 1635 map for landscape and vegetation (Windows media small 600kb] or large [2mb])

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laxton castle survey, 3D model of the castle based on the 2004/5 survey and showing the resistance survey results, with the projected outline of the post-medieval manor house superimposed. Windows media [1.5mb].

 

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Take a virtual tour of laxton, click on the image to open a vrml landscape model
(requires Cortona VRML client or similar viewer)

 

 

 

Site maintained by Keith Challis (KChallis@laxtoncastle.org.uk)
Last updated  21/09/2006