The Early Norman Castles of the British IslesJ. Murray, 1912 - 408 pages |
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... castle - mounds , and of the stone castles built upon many of them , but may also furnish material to the historian who seeks to trace the progress of the Norman occupation . Students of the architecture of castles are aware that this ...
... castle - mounds , and of the stone castles built upon many of them , but may also furnish material to the historian who seeks to trace the progress of the Norman occupation . Students of the architecture of castles are aware that this ...
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Ella S. Armitage. CHAPTER X PAGE MOTTE - CASTLES IN SCOTLAND 302 CHAPTER XI MOTTE - CASTLES IN IRELAND 323 CHAPTER XII STONE CASTLES OF THE NORMAN PERIOD 351 A. PRIMITIVE FOLK - MOOTS APPENDICES • B. WATLING STREET AND THE DANELAGH C ...
Ella S. Armitage. CHAPTER X PAGE MOTTE - CASTLES IN SCOTLAND 302 CHAPTER XI MOTTE - CASTLES IN IRELAND 323 CHAPTER XII STONE CASTLES OF THE NORMAN PERIOD 351 A. PRIMITIVE FOLK - MOOTS APPENDICES • B. WATLING STREET AND THE DANELAGH C ...
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... stone castles which immediately succeeded them , so that it was only necessary to add a stone tower and stone walls to these works to convert them into a Norman castle of the popularly accepted type . We regard the military character of ...
... stone castles which immediately succeeded them , so that it was only necessary to add a stone tower and stone walls to these works to convert them into a Norman castle of the popularly accepted type . We regard the military character of ...
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... castle - builder has been at work there subsequently . The weak point in Mr ... castle . In this list , the burhs on both sides of the river at Hertford ... stone keep . . 914 A motte and a Norman castle . Tamworth Stafford , N. of ...
... castle - builder has been at work there subsequently . The weak point in Mr ... castle . In this list , the burhs on both sides of the river at Hertford ... stone keep . . 914 A motte and a Norman castle . Tamworth Stafford , N. of ...
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Ella S. Armitage. SIEGE CASTLES requent to find a motte very near a stone castle . 85 In case it is either the abandoned site of the original den castle , or it is a siege castle raised to blockade other one . We constantly hear of these ...
Ella S. Armitage. SIEGE CASTLES requent to find a motte very near a stone castle . 85 In case it is either the abandoned site of the original den castle , or it is a siege castle raised to blockade other one . We constantly hear of these ...
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12th century acres ancient Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Annals appears Arch borough bretasche Brut building built Burghal Hidage burgus burh called camp Cardigan castelli castellum castrum certainly chapel charter Chester church Close Rolls Colchester Conquest Corfe Danes Danish defended ditch Domesday Book doubt Earl early Norman earthworks Edward Edward the Elder enclosed enclosure England English Ethelfleda evidence existence feet feudal Fitz fortifications Fulk Nerra Giraldus Gwynedd Henry II Henry II.'s hillock History houses III.'s reign Journ king land manor masonry mediæval mentioned moated Montgomerie mote motte and bailey motte-and-bailey motte-castle mound mural towers Norman castle Norwich Ordericus original Orpen outer Pipe Rolls private castle probably Quatford remains remarks Risen river Robert Rochester Roger Roman round ruins Saxon says Scotland shows side Stafford stands stockade stone castle stone keep town trace turris Wales wall ward Welsh William wooden castle word writer