The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... example in this country is the siege of Rochester by John in the October of 1215. The angle of the castle wall was first mined and broken up and the angle of the great tower itself then assaulted . The recently discovered mine gallery ...
... example in this country is the siege of Rochester by John in the October of 1215. The angle of the castle wall was first mined and broken up and the angle of the great tower itself then assaulted . The recently discovered mine gallery ...
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... example already noted at Arundel was his work . There are the remains of shell - keeps at Pickering in York- shire , Tonbridge in Kent , Lewes in Sussex , Berkhamsted in Herts , Clare and Eye in Suffolk ( this last much restored ) ...
... example already noted at Arundel was his work . There are the remains of shell - keeps at Pickering in York- shire , Tonbridge in Kent , Lewes in Sussex , Berkhamsted in Herts , Clare and Eye in Suffolk ( this last much restored ) ...
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... example at Donnington in Berk- shire ( 101 ) erected in 1386 . This is one of the very few new fourteenth - century castles to be erected on an old site . The oval Norman mound conse- quently distorts the normal plan somewhat , making ...
... example at Donnington in Berk- shire ( 101 ) erected in 1386 . This is one of the very few new fourteenth - century castles to be erected on an old site . The oval Norman mound conse- quently distorts the normal plan somewhat , making ...
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