Depends on how many who work on it.narniac101 wrote:How long does everybody think it takes to rebuild a ruined castle?
Many Medieval castles were built in a few weeks or months.
And here we are talking of rebuilding on a foundation already laid - might mean some clearing off of rubble to prevent loose foundations, but one year would probably be enough, at least to make it habitable or if Caspian had some hut in the throne hall until the roof was remade.
Some Cathedrals took hundreds of years, but there the questions were:
1) when shall we next time be able to pay builders
2) will builders be around when we have the money
and
3) when shall that proprietor agree to sell off his land to the Church?
As to last point, one did not actually force people off their houses in order to make public buildings back then. One waited. Purely technically, a cathedral could possibly have been built on one or two years, and it was more complex as a building than a castle. (I feel horribly Eustace about knowing this ... OK, not really mean the "horribly" part).
You mean if Narnia had a climate similar to Holy Land and Anatolia?Benisse wrote:...1000+ years. I have, however, visited israel and Turkey and I can tell you in that amount of time the flora would have taken over the structure and I believe the real castle would be buried under a mound similar to the one over the stone table...
What if they were less hot, like growing apples? What if even Archenland was less hot?
In that case ... it was pretty overgrown as it was. Apple trees all over one court, ivy all over the walls.
As to "repeninsulating" Cair, it might be a question of building bridges - that way Centaurs would be able to ride all the way in SC while it remained an island as in PC.