Destroying a Castle

[Spiny_Norman]

@Cicero

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.

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.