This siege could last months. Attacking armies needed a way to speed up the process of the siege. The siege tower was a fortifed building on wheels that could be rolled up against the walls of the castle under siege.
The Catapult was one of the earlies siege weapons. It hurled objects at castles and brought down castle walls. In the early middle ages this was a siege machine that could haul all sorts of object both directly at the castle walls and over the castle walls at the people within. It was often built in the attacking armies homeland then transported to the place of the siege.
In the late middle ages the trebuchet came to the forefront as the weapon of choice for sieging castles. Siege weapons were only one resource that an army had when sieging a castle.
Counter measures that castles took in defense against sieges:
1. Stronger and thicker walls were built. These walls could sustain more punishment from siege engines.
2. Concentric walls were built around the castle. This made it more difficult for siege engines to hurl objects at the castle. If the outer wall was breached the siege engines had to be brought inside these walls in order to attack the inner walls. It served the purposes of making it difficult for enemy troops, enemy siege towers and enemy battering rams to get close to the castle walls. It also made it near impossible for the sieging army to dig a tunnel under the castle.
3. Higher castle towers were built. It was a great advantage to have the castle towers higher than the siege towers that attacked.
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