The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 16
... perhaps , to enclose an area of some five acres . When the ditches had been dug round this and ram- parts , anything up to sixty feet or so in thickness , had risen round the edge of the enclosure , the space left available for living ...
... perhaps , to enclose an area of some five acres . When the ditches had been dug round this and ram- parts , anything up to sixty feet or so in thickness , had risen round the edge of the enclosure , the space left available for living ...
Page 69
... perhaps not be able to see the pavement below , and on the floor above that , even if there is a riot going on in the street , you may not be able to see it — without leaning out . Now perhaps you can see the difficulty of the watchman ...
... perhaps not be able to see the pavement below , and on the floor above that , even if there is a riot going on in the street , you may not be able to see it — without leaning out . Now perhaps you can see the difficulty of the watchman ...
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... perhaps at the time of the Black Death of 1350 . At Mileham in Norfolk and Ludgershall in Wiltshire the ramparts of town and castle are all that exist to remind us of the population they once protected . There are many other towns and ...
... perhaps at the time of the Black Death of 1350 . At Mileham in Norfolk and Ludgershall in Wiltshire the ramparts of town and castle are all that exist to remind us of the population they once protected . There are many other towns and ...
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