The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 8
... base proportionately longer , so much more earthwork is needed and the defensive lines will curve across from flank to flank making the shape of the site approximately a sector of a circle . Perhaps there is no promontory at all , but ...
... base proportionately longer , so much more earthwork is needed and the defensive lines will curve across from flank to flank making the shape of the site approximately a sector of a circle . Perhaps there is no promontory at all , but ...
Page 12
... base of a narrow steep - sided spur between two shallow ravines . Two notable examples of castles planned by cutting a curved ditch between the flanks of a more obtuse- angled promontory may be seen at Ludlow in Shropshire and Pembroke ...
... base of a narrow steep - sided spur between two shallow ravines . Two notable examples of castles planned by cutting a curved ditch between the flanks of a more obtuse- angled promontory may be seen at Ludlow in Shropshire and Pembroke ...
Page 111
... base of each of its square angle towers ( 104 ) , so arranged as to enfilade the base of the main walls . Coastal defence was being improved in the Tudor period , and the ports of Fowey and Dartmouth were protected by pairs of towers ...
... base of each of its square angle towers ( 104 ) , so arranged as to enfilade the base of the main walls . Coastal defence was being improved in the Tudor period , and the ports of Fowey and Dartmouth were protected by pairs of towers ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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arch architects architecture bailey barbican basement Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris beautiful besiegers Bishop's Waltham built Caerphilly castellan castle halls CASTLE RISING castle-builders chapel Chepstow Chilham circular constructed crenellated cross-wall defences ditch domestic buildings Dover early Norman earthwork Edward Edwardian elaborate enclosure engines England English castle entrance passage erected example feudal figs fireplace forebuilding fortified fortress fourteenth century Framlingham gallery garrison gate gatehouse hall and chamber hall-keep Henry HEREFORDSHIRE interior Kidwelly later latrines lord main floor masonry Maxstoke mediaeval middle military moat MONMOUTHSHIRE motte motte-and-bailey castles Norman castle Orford outer palisades Portchester possibly protected ramparts remains Rochester roof round keep royal castles ruins Saxon scarps seems seen shell-keep Shropshire side siege stair staircase stone walls storey stronghold structures summit surrounded Sussex thirteenth century timber castle to-day tower Tower of London tower-keeps trebuchet triforium twelfth century upper usually wall-towers Yorkshire