Copper Horse

Previously, I talked about how expensive defences can be subverted by a determined and clever adversary. This time I continue the theme of access, but consider the problem of confusion.

History shows that in the Conwy castle case, the garrison were complacent – even though the Welsh had started to rebel the year before. The ‘trusted’ carpenter should have been let in on his own without anyone else and there should have been additional guards within the main castle such that the attackers were confined to the barbican itself, to be dealt with.