How were the castles built?

          Castles were usually either built from wood or stone, however, stone was more expensive because it had to be imported form very far away. Building the castles took many men. It was like a whole army of men working on just one castle! This is because they took so long to build. I'm not sure I would want to work on a Medieval castle! In fact, because of the lengthy process, castles were often finished improperly!
          When building, they used many tools. For example, they used things like crowbars, a stone cutter’s pickax, shovels, ropes, saws, and many other tools. Although the job did take a long time, the tools they used helped them get the job done a little faster. However, using the tools was also hard work, but it did make things more efficient.
           When building first began, trenches were built to form the wall foundation, this is how they started to build the castles. Once the trenches were built, they kept building the walls up. This took time and hard work, especially when the castle was being built with stone! Each and every stone had to be carefully lifted. This was because the stones were too heavy to lift by hand. Inorder to lift the stone, workers had to tie ropes around it so that multiple men could lift it together, if just one person tried to lift it, it would be nearly impossible!
          When building a castle, you had to take into consideration, not only the way the castle looked and it's durability, but how to build the castle so that it was easier to defend as well! That's a lot to think about when building a castle!