The Early Norman Castles of the British IslesJohn Murray, 1912 - 408 pages Some portions of this book have already appeared in print. The rest of the work is entirely new. No serious attempt had been made to ascertain the exact nature of Saxon and Danish fortifications by a comparison of the existing remains with the historical records which have come down to us, until the publication of Mr Allcroft's valuable book on Earthwork of England. The chapters on Saxon and Danish earthworks in the present volume were written before the appearance of his book, though the results arrived at are only slightly different. |
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Page 12
... 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 ...
Page 41
... 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 ...
Page 70
... 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 ...
Page 73
... 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 ...
Page 78
... castles outside the Norman frontier.1 It might be thought that the general expectation of the end of the world in the year 1000 , which prevailed towards the end of the 10th century , had something to do with the spread of these wooden ...
... castles outside the Norman frontier.1 It might be thought that the general expectation of the end of the world in the year 1000 , which prevailed towards the end of the 10th century , had something to do with the spread of these wooden ...
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