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The general plan of the motte - and - bailey castle was , however , capable of variation in detail . In the first place , though the mound was usually round or oval , the shape of the bailey varied greatly , as a glance at the plans and ...
The general plan of the motte - and - bailey castle was , however , capable of variation in detail . In the first place , though the mound was usually round or oval , the shape of the bailey varied greatly , as a glance at the plans and ...
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The bailey itself in the new stone castles need not detain us long . Some of the earliest stone fortification , we have seen , is found in the bailey walls of certain castles sited upon rocky and elevated sites , like Richmond or the ...
The bailey itself in the new stone castles need not detain us long . Some of the earliest stone fortification , we have seen , is found in the bailey walls of certain castles sited upon rocky and elevated sites , like Richmond or the ...
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86 ) , whose keep and inner bailey , the core of the castle , date from the earlier twelfth century , and whose once fine series of domestic buildings within the inner bailey date from the reign of John , received the curtain walls of ...
86 ) , whose keep and inner bailey , the core of the castle , date from the earlier twelfth century , and whose once fine series of domestic buildings within the inner bailey date from the reign of John , received the curtain walls of ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | English Castles Volume 21 of Batsford paperbacks |
| Author | Reginald Allen Brown |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | B. T. Batsford, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 207 pages |
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