A series of hard frosts had killed the crops they’d planted afterward, leaving only mud and ash and wilted, rotting stalks. Oats and barley had been growing there when took the castle, only to be crushed underfoot during her attack. On the south side of the castle, moss grew thick upon the palisade and crept halfway up the towers. There were two gates, each protected by a pair of square wooden towers, and wallwalks around the perimeter. The outer defenses made an oval, following the contours of the land. Beneath the hill was the bailey, with its stables, paddock, smithy, well, and sheepfold, defended by a deep ditch, a sloping earthen dike, and a palisade of logs. Not surprisingly, it’s a descriptive piece:ĭeepwood’s mossy walls enclosed a wide, rounded hill with a flattened top, crowned by a cavernous longhall with a watchtower at one end, rising fifty feet above the hill. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, I was struck by a particular passage that really encapsulated the difference in Martin’s writing when comparing his earlier work to his later works. While reading A Dance with Dragons, the fifth volume in George R.R.
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