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From the Byzantines they had learned something of building in stone and how to turn the arch in its most efficiently constructed form with ever - widening rings of " voussoirs " ( as the stones of an arch are called ) .
From the Byzantines they had learned something of building in stone and how to turn the arch in its most efficiently constructed form with ever - widening rings of " voussoirs " ( as the stones of an arch are called ) .
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instead of palisades , the entrance in this case being through a fine large arch cut through the wall . The castle had no keep , however , so the wall over this great arch was raised and a tower built round it to form one of the most ...
instead of palisades , the entrance in this case being through a fine large arch cut through the wall . The castle had no keep , however , so the wall over this great arch was raised and a tower built round it to form one of the most ...
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Later still the chains were attached to the ends of two arms which projected from above the arch of the gate ( the slots for these may often be seen in the walls of our later castle gatehouses ...
Later still the chains were attached to the ends of two arms which projected from above the arch of the gate ( the slots for these may often be seen in the walls of our later castle gatehouses ...
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Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Castle British heritage series English countryside series |
| Author | Hugh Braun |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | B. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2020 |
| Length | 120 pages |
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