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Page 119
The information about the building on the Pipe Rolls is very summarised and provides few details of how the work was carried out , but the mention on the roll of 1167-8 of finished timbers , presumably for the joists and flooring of the ...
The information about the building on the Pipe Rolls is very summarised and provides few details of how the work was carried out , but the mention on the roll of 1167-8 of finished timbers , presumably for the joists and flooring of the ...
Page 127
Though thereafter the military importance of the castle declined , building - works at existing castles or the raising of new fortified places continued . We ought finally to look at one or two of these building - works of the later ...
Though thereafter the military importance of the castle declined , building - works at existing castles or the raising of new fortified places continued . We ought finally to look at one or two of these building - works of the later ...
Page 132
Castle - building works in the Middle Ages , viewed as a whole , most commonly took the form of the improvement and ... The advent of the stone castle itself meant usually the piecemeal addition of stone walls and buildings to motte ...
Castle - building works in the Middle Ages , viewed as a whole , most commonly took the form of the improvement and ... The advent of the stone castle itself meant usually the piecemeal addition of stone walls and buildings to motte ...
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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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