The Castle Tîrgu was built in 3 stages over a period of six centuries. The first stages was a motte and bailey style fortification on the eastern section of the hill; test pits dug here reveal a mostly wooden structure with some reinforced gate structures around the main gate; a wooden palisade ran around the entire hill (Figure 1).

The second stage was a proper fortified stone tower, which became the Castellan's Tower in the third stage, built over the motte and bailey (Figure 2).

The third stage was a 15' stone wall that encircled the top of the hill, many reinforced stone and framed timber buildings, an inner keep, a large gate with portcullis and other medieval ammenities (Figure 3).

What was Camelot famous for? It's knight life!

I was looking around the Internet for a list of archæology jokes and came across this tired joke on many web sites. The funniest thing about this joke (not the joke itself, mind you, it isn't funny at all) is that it should be "Its knight life", not "It's knight life". It's probably a good thing for archæologists to have editors. Its second funny aspect was that this joke was the most common joke and was listed on 14 pages - including this one, 15 - and every single site had it punctuated incorrectly! Now that's funny... or should it be thats funny... hmm.

The second most common archæology joke listed on the Internet was What do you call a very, very old joke? Pre-hysterical! The only funny thing about this joke was that one site listed the joke twice in its list of twenty jokes. Ten percent of its jokes were actually the same one.

So much for archæology jokes. That could be the reason there are not an abundance of comedian-archæologists about.