The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 7
... ditch to make an earthen wall behind which he may cower and upon which he may mount to meet the attack when it comes . It is , of course , obvious that the rampart must be raised on the defender's side of the ditch ; this is invariably ...
... ditch to make an earthen wall behind which he may cower and upon which he may mount to meet the attack when it comes . It is , of course , obvious that the rampart must be raised on the defender's side of the ditch ; this is invariably ...
Page 15
... ditch cut joining these two sides would complete the defences of the place . This plan may be seen at Norham in Northumberland and Barnard in Durham . The same type of plan is met with in the case of some castles built in the angles of ...
... ditch cut joining these two sides would complete the defences of the place . This plan may be seen at Norham in Northumberland and Barnard in Durham . The same type of plan is met with in the case of some castles built in the angles of ...
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... ditch - and- bank work , in many of these , and in most of the smaller examples , the excavated soil , instead of being used to form a rampart , was spread all over the interior of the area sur- rounded by the ditch , thus forming ...
... ditch - and- bank work , in many of these , and in most of the smaller examples , the excavated soil , instead of being used to form a rampart , was spread all over the interior of the area sur- rounded by the ditch , thus forming ...
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