# Destroying a Castle

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroying-a-castle/318544>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 25, 2005, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroying-a-castle/318544 "2005-08-25T11:21:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destroying-a-castle/318544/21 "2005-08-27T00:00:41Z")

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> [@Cicero](#):
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> I’m going back to Scotland, and I have been rereading the history. However, I am not quite certain how a castle can be destroyed after a siege. Granted, trebuchets and rams may knock a few parts around, and the castle could be over run so all the defenders are killed. It may be burned so all wooden supports are destroyed.
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> But- would that wreck it? It seems conceivable that if the stone part is still there, it wouldn’t take much to make it again a fortress. Or where they actually blown up?

If there’s a community with a need for building materials nearby, an abandoned castle is basically speaking a quarry, only with much less effort involved. Attrition rate would be high.

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