
When the Normans invaded England they brought with them a new form of stone construction. Many castles were constructed throughout England culminating in the building of the most iconic, Windsor Castle, in the late Norman period. The walls built at that time incorporated flat oyster shells bedded within the mortar joints and chips or flakes of stone pressed into the soft mortar, both of which materials are classed as gallets, a word derived from the French language.
The Norman castle at Windsor
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GALLERY - GREAT BRITAIN

ENGLAND

Pebbles, Norfolk

Arundel Road, Dorking. Surrey, Photo Martin Higgins
Beccles Museum, Suffolk

Flint, Chichester, West Sussex

SCOTLAND

Collinsburgh, Fife
Photo Craig Frew

Galleted ashlar, Kirkcudbright, Galloway.
Photo Prof Robin Forest

Hedgehog pointing
Photo Craig Frew
IRELAND

Dunmurry
Photo Brian Shaw

Gracehill, Ballymena, Antrim
Photo Dr Alan Coday

Moira, County Down
Photo Brian Shaw
STATES OF GUERNSEY

La Fosse, St Martin
Photo Simon Went

La Taniere, Castel
Photo Simon Went

Ironstone galleting, Shere, Surrey

Brick or tile gallets, Thornham, Norfolk


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Fig. 1 King Henry Vlll gate.
Fig. 2 Galleted mortar joints inside the gateway.
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