The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... enclosure on more or less level ground . The method of commencing a simple enclosure of ditch and bank work is first of all to mark out a line from which to start digging . This might be done with the aid of a plough or traced out more ...
... enclosure on more or less level ground . The method of commencing a simple enclosure of ditch and bank work is first of all to mark out a line from which to start digging . This might be done with the aid of a plough or traced out more ...
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... enclosures of ditch and rampart , the really typical feature of the Norman castle is the mound . Some castle ... enclosure of ditch and bank work at the outer end of the bridge so as to include this within the defences of the ...
... enclosures of ditch and rampart , the really typical feature of the Norman castle is the mound . Some castle ... enclosure of ditch and bank work at the outer end of the bridge so as to include this within the defences of the ...
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... enclosure . ( Actually , the en- closure was always called the " castle " and the motte the " tower . " ) While the Norman lord seems to have preferred to live on a broad , deeply ditched mound , the motte - and - bailey type of castle ...
... enclosure . ( Actually , the en- closure was always called the " castle " and the motte the " tower . " ) While the Norman lord seems to have preferred to live on a broad , deeply ditched mound , the motte - and - bailey type of castle ...
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