The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... castle halls were being erected , and that these may have been a combination of masted construction and the framed and braced technique of the classical peoples introduced into Normandy through the Byzantines . If this is so , we can ...
... castle halls were being erected , and that these may have been a combination of masted construction and the framed and braced technique of the classical peoples introduced into Normandy through the Byzantines . If this is so , we can ...
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Hugh Braun. Norman castle hall . The first timber houses of the Frankish landowners possibly consisted of a single ... halls of the Conquest period , they were actually probably quite simple structures until the twelfth century was ...
Hugh Braun. Norman castle hall . The first timber houses of the Frankish landowners possibly consisted of a single ... halls of the Conquest period , they were actually probably quite simple structures until the twelfth century was ...
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... castle halls may have been before they were replaced by stone hall - keeps . On the whole , however , such large structures must have been the exception rather than the rule , the average castle hall being of the simple type with or ...
... castle halls may have been before they were replaced by stone hall - keeps . On the whole , however , such large structures must have been the exception rather than the rule , the average castle hall being of the simple type with or ...
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