A historic trebuchet billed as "Britain's biggest siege machine" has been rebuilt at Warwick Castle. The 18m (59ft) tall giant catapult, a replica of the castle's original medieval weaponry ...

How you design your trebuchet will decide the fate of the castle wall—and it may also ... land on your head or an arrow may pierce your medieval heart.

A trebuchet was a medieval siege weapon ... to build this great piece of artillery for the siege of Stirling Castle in Scotland. Assembled by five master carpenters and 49 labourers, the ...

What a castle siege is How people prepared for ... Use this drawing of a medieval trebuchet to help you. Image caption, Can you draw a trebuchet and label the different parts?

This meant the trebuchet could send a lighter projectile farther, providing more distance between those who fired the machines and deadly enemy archers at the castle. Here's how it works.

The trebuchet, to understate it slightly ... A useful weapon for besieging medieval castles, it dwindled into irrelevance with the advent of reliable gunpowder artillery.