The Early Norman Castles of the British IslesJ. Murray, 1912 - 408 pages |
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... castles there is no gap in the bailey banks for an entrance . They must have been entered by a movable wooden stair , such as horses can be taught to climb . See the plan of Topcliffe Castle , Yorks ( Fig . 1 ) . itself if we examine it ...
... castles there is no gap in the bailey banks for an entrance . They must have been entered by a movable wooden stair , such as horses can be taught to climb . See the plan of Topcliffe Castle , Yorks ( Fig . 1 ) . itself if we examine it ...
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... castle now stands ; for when it was attacked by Penda in 633 , he found the situation so strong that it was impossible to storm it , and it was only by heaping up wood on the most accessible side that he was able to set fire to the wooden ...
... castle now stands ; for when it was attacked by Penda in 633 , he found the situation so strong that it was impossible to storm it , and it was only by heaping up wood on the most accessible side that he was able to set fire to the wooden ...
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... wooden castle . MALDON . Only one angle of the earthen bank of Edward's borough remains now , but Gough states that it was an oblong camp enclosing about 22 acres.1 It had rounded corners and a very wide ditch , with a bank on both ...
... wooden castle . MALDON . Only one angle of the earthen bank of Edward's borough remains now , but Gough states that it was an oblong camp enclosing about 22 acres.1 It had rounded corners and a very wide ditch , with a bank on both ...
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... castle in its earlier stages was nothing more than an embankment with a wooden stockade thrown round some villa or farm belonging to a private owner , and was therefore indistinguishable in appearance , though radically differ- ent in ...
... castle in its earlier stages was nothing more than an embankment with a wooden stockade thrown round some villa or farm belonging to a private owner , and was therefore indistinguishable in appearance , though radically differ- ent in ...
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... castle on the western side of the hill Mont - Glonne , at St Florent le Vieil , on the Loire , and threw up an agger on which he built a wooden tower.1 In this case the word agger evidently means a motte . But Fulk began to reign in 987 ...
... castle on the western side of the hill Mont - Glonne , at St Florent le Vieil , on the Loire , and threw up an agger on which he built a wooden tower.1 In this case the word agger evidently means a motte . But Fulk began to reign in 987 ...
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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