The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 43
... besiegers . The windows were all kept high off the floor and thus had sloping or stepped stills to let the light get as near to the floor as possible . The only windows where an archer might get a stance were those in the " triforium ...
... besiegers . The windows were all kept high off the floor and thus had sloping or stepped stills to let the light get as near to the floor as possible . The only windows where an archer might get a stance were those in the " triforium ...
Page 86
... besiegers . Thus , with the advent of tall stone walls , the earthen mounds passed away for ever . It is impossible to lay too much stress upon the very great danger mining was to the high stone towers and curtains of the thirteenth ...
... besiegers . Thus , with the advent of tall stone walls , the earthen mounds passed away for ever . It is impossible to lay too much stress upon the very great danger mining was to the high stone towers and curtains of the thirteenth ...
Page 86
... besiegers could be kept well away from the walls . The most notable change of face of the castle - builders of the ... besieger and the water drained away , leaving the castle defence- less . Some castles , such as Kenilworth and ...
... besiegers could be kept well away from the walls . The most notable change of face of the castle - builders of the ... besieger and the water drained away , leaving the castle defence- less . Some castles , such as Kenilworth and ...
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