This site is dedicated to all of the aspects of Siege warfare as it pertains to the Society of Creative Anachronism. Within these pages you will find the official rules used by the Society and the Kingdom of Ansteorra.  Throughout history the siege has been a necessary tactic in order to secure a countryside or country from enemies. Fortified castles were built around any desirable piece of land or town to act as staging areas for Lords, Knights, and Royalty to control and protect their populace. Siege engines, tools, and tactics were created to nullify the advantages of the castle. In the Society, we attempt to recreate these tactics and weapons to help our commanders gain entry into the "forts and castles" we lay siege to, in the name of fun and historical study. I hope you enjoy this site and welcome any feedback. Please be patient, as this is a site in the making...

This is the Ansteorran Siege Weapons web page, a publication of the Kingdom of Ansteorra of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. It is not a corporate publication of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Incorporated, and does not delineate SCA policies.

As a convenience to our members, we have links from this site to many of the SCA  branch pages. Links to these pages do not imply formal approval or ownership of those pages. In particular, we do not warrant or authorize any information contained on any page or link except those held at www.ansteorra.org and its sub directories.

Some of the links from our pages, if followed, will lead you to merchants and other commercial operations. We do not recommend, refer, authorize, warrant, or commission any of these merchants, and links to them from other pages we link to do not imply any such relationship.

Illuminations borrowed from: Medieval Russian Ornament in Full Color from Illuminated Manuscripts, Moscow Museum of Art and Industry. ISBN # 0-486-28258-9 Copyright (c) 1994 by Dover Publications, Inc.

Illustration: Siege of a city, from BL Cott. Nero EII, Pt 2, f.i