Low-poly reconstruction of an early 11th century wooden motte castle. A very common type of castles in the middle ages between the 9th and 12th century in northern Europe, like France, Germany, Denmark, Poland and Britain. This motte has a rather flat mound with only approximately 2 m in height above the water. Some exceeded up to 30 m in height. However the majority of mottes was between 5 – 10 m high. Most times the motte was not a solitary structure but rather was accompanied by an enclosed courtyard: The so called “motte-and-bailey castle”.

The bailey could easily be added to the model by using parts of the existing palisade and align them along a spline, if needed. Or if you need more palisade elements check out my Modular palisades pack: https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/exterior/historic/modular-medieval-wooden-palisades-pack Major Update 13/08/2020 - Version 2.0: a lot of detail added, textures partly renewed

The file includes:

• The tower or keep with a footprint of 11 x 11 m and a height of 14 m.
• A surrounding palisade with round path and stairs (approx. 17 x 19 m). Gates can be opened.
• The landscape that is immediately surrounding the buildings: motte and ditch with water.
• A bridge.

Polys/Verts

• Tower (4,711/5,869)
• Palisade with round path and gate (22,586/24,650)
• Bridge (1,992/2,192)
• Water (656/746)
• Landscape (640/337)

Further Information

Models are

• Fully mapped and textured with simple diffuse, height and normal maps.
• In real world scale (meters).
• Attached together, logically grouped, layered and named.
• Some with open modifier stacks. (at least in the .max file)