Neuvicq Le Chateau: ancient hill fortress

[Francissimo]

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.

[Josiah VE]

This is really cool! The cartoony style is great, and I love the idea.

[Mouse]

Oh excellent. I love the trees

This is very different from your usual maps, but I like it

[ChickPea]

Awesome work, Francissimo. You've brought the area to life and given an clear idea of what it might have been like a millennia ago.

[Francissimo]

Thanks for the rep and comments!
Working only with sketchup was completly different from what i usually did so that's why the result is kinda different (+ i couldnt add some space stuff because it was for work)
And thx ChickPea, the archeological report explains some details, but after a millennia, there was almost nothing left of the wooden buildings. They only found a few rocks showing where the tower was, and some silos. That gave me quite a lot of space to depitct how the place look like a millennia ago.
For the record 500 years after that wooden castle, local inhabitants slaughtered some protestants on that same hill, so the place is full of history.