Hello everyone.
I'm working on various map projects with mayors of my territory, and one of them owns an ancient hill covered by woods.
A thousand years ago, that wooden hill, located near the ancient roman road, had much more importance than today. It was heavily protected against raiders, contains a wooden tower with rock foundation to watch on trade routes and was also a living place. Those place called motte castrale, were the ancestors of medieval castles.

The map was done with Sketchup and twillight render and will be used for an exposure about medieval age.
motte_final.jpg
This project was really cool to work on, an archeological team did some excavations a few years ago and i've started this 3D view of the hill inspired by their notes. I've also visited the actual site, but the forest was everywhere and you can only guess that there were some pits.