The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 65
... engines that Henry's five hundred carpenters were making that summer's evening while N A TREBUCHET WITH ITS " VERGE " HAULED HALF - WAY DOWN the Will o ' the Wisps danced over Syleham Marsh ? My own impression is that the great ...
... engines that Henry's five hundred carpenters were making that summer's evening while N A TREBUCHET WITH ITS " VERGE " HAULED HALF - WAY DOWN the Will o ' the Wisps danced over Syleham Marsh ? My own impression is that the great ...
Page 67
... engine , thus bringing up the other end and casting forth the projectile . ( See MS . illustrations , Fig . 57. ) It will be seen that these great engines were a great improve- ment on the old mangon , as the principle was much more ...
... engine , thus bringing up the other end and casting forth the projectile . ( See MS . illustrations , Fig . 57. ) It will be seen that these great engines were a great improve- ment on the old mangon , as the principle was much more ...
Page 71
... engines ) . It is doubtful whether our castles were as a general rule armed with engines , and certainly the solid bastion is very seldom found , the hollow habitable form being invariably adopted . The roofs of such towers were usually ...
... engines ) . It is doubtful whether our castles were as a general rule armed with engines , and certainly the solid bastion is very seldom found , the hollow habitable form being invariably adopted . The roofs of such towers were usually ...
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