The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 7
... earthwork . It will be appreciated that earthwork by itself will not serve as more than an obstruction to check and disorganise a charge of attacking warriors . In order for the works to be effective as a defence , the rampart must be ...
... earthwork . It will be appreciated that earthwork by itself will not serve as more than an obstruction to check and disorganise a charge of attacking warriors . In order for the works to be effective as a defence , the rampart must be ...
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... earthwork cut across the neck of the promontory would turn the site into a primitive fortress . If the projection of the promontory becomes less pro- nounced and its base proportionately longer , so much more earthwork is needed and the ...
... earthwork cut across the neck of the promontory would turn the site into a primitive fortress . If the projection of the promontory becomes less pro- nounced and its base proportionately longer , so much more earthwork is needed and the ...
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... earthworks are simply ancient sites re - fortified , and that as earthwork engineers the Saxons were practically negligible . ) The original defences of many of these early boroughs have disappeared with the growth of the towns which ...
... earthworks are simply ancient sites re - fortified , and that as earthwork engineers the Saxons were practically negligible . ) The original defences of many of these early boroughs have disappeared with the growth of the towns which ...
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