The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... summit becomes smaller as it rises more and more rapidly with each spadeful of soil . At last the desired conical shape is attained and the banner affixed to the summit of the completed symbol of sovereignty , which may then be fought ...
... summit becomes smaller as it rises more and more rapidly with each spadeful of soil . At last the desired conical shape is attained and the banner affixed to the summit of the completed symbol of sovereignty , which may then be fought ...
Page 51
... summit of the mottes of several great royal castles . He is known to have constructed them at Hastings in Sussex and Tickhill in Yorkshire , and the example already noted at Arundel was his work . There are the remains of shell - keeps ...
... summit of the mottes of several great royal castles . He is known to have constructed them at Hastings in Sussex and Tickhill in Yorkshire , and the example already noted at Arundel was his work . There are the remains of shell - keeps ...
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... summit which gave them the title of " shell - keep . " During the century some of these keeps were embellished by the addition of a little gatehouse . At Lewes in Sussex the shell - keep was improved , appar- ently about 1300 , by the ...
... summit which gave them the title of " shell - keep . " During the century some of these keeps were embellished by the addition of a little gatehouse . At Lewes in Sussex the shell - keep was improved , appar- ently about 1300 , by the ...
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