A virtual field trip

Pendennis Castle, Cornwall

Menu• Castle plan (with hot spots)

• How Pendennis developed

• Investigation questions

• Castle walkthrough

• Web links

• Pendennis the movie

• End this presentation

Castle plan

Entrance

Main tower

Chemise

Gun decks

Roof

Kitchen

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How Pendennis developed

This picture shows Pendennis Castle today, with the governor’s block added during Edward’s reign.

This is how the castle may have looked at first.

This is how the castle looked when the chemise was added.

These twopictures

are faked.

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The entranceThese pictures…

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Plan

The chemise

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The gun decks

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Plan

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The kitchenThis picture…

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Plan

Investigation questions• Is Pendennis typical of Henry VIII’s castles?

• Where is it positioned?

• Is it well defended?

• What does it defend?

• How has it changed?

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Castle walkthrough

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Inside

Up to the gun deck

Out to the chemise

Instead of using the buttons, you can click on each side of the picture to move up or right.

The gun deck

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The chemise

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Software to ‘stitch’ pictures into a panoramic view often comes free with digital cameras, printers and so on.

Web links• English Heritage• CastleXplorer• Multimap• Multimap aerial

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You can also link to other files, such as word-processed documents of background sources.

Pendennis the movie

Ok – no movie to save file size, but it’s just as easy (and in the same menu) as inserting a picture. Menu

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