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First a tunnel was driven across the angle to cut it off from the tower and then the whole angle was undermined with cross - galleries until the props could be fired and the whole corner of the keep , over a hundred feet high to the top ...
First a tunnel was driven across the angle to cut it off from the tower and then the whole angle was undermined with cross - galleries until the props could be fired and the whole corner of the keep , over a hundred feet high to the top ...
Page 60
The defensive armour of the twelfth century was the long shirt of chain mail reaching to the knees and , later on , chain mail breeches to protect the whole leg . The helmet was first of all the conical type with a strip of metal coming ...
The defensive armour of the twelfth century was the long shirt of chain mail reaching to the knees and , later on , chain mail breeches to protect the whole leg . The helmet was first of all the conical type with a strip of metal coming ...
Page 78
This description gives some idea of how elaborate some of the vanished timber castle halls may have been before they were replaced by stone hall - keeps . On the whole , however , such large structures must have been the exception ...
This description gives some idea of how elaborate some of the vanished timber castle halls may have been before they were replaced by stone hall - keeps . On the whole , however , such large structures must have been the exception ...
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Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Castle British heritage series English countryside series |
| Author | Hugh Braun |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | B. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2020 |
| Length | 120 pages |
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