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Yet even now the fact that a castle need not be , and for some hundred years in this country alone was often not , a fortress of stone , is anything but common knowledge . So numerous are the remains of early castles that few need ...
Yet even now the fact that a castle need not be , and for some hundred years in this country alone was often not , a fortress of stone , is anything but common knowledge . So numerous are the remains of early castles that few need ...
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The shell keep is a common feature of the English castle both because it could most easily be added to an existing motte - and - bailey stronghold and because it was also reasonably cheap to construct . Nevertheless another type of keep ...
The shell keep is a common feature of the English castle both because it could most easily be added to an existing motte - and - bailey stronghold and because it was also reasonably cheap to construct . Nevertheless another type of keep ...
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... over by the torsion of the ropes acting on its lower end , and the projectile was hurled towards the target . A more powerful type of stone - throwing engine was the trebuchet , brought a into common use , it seems , towards the 141.
... over by the torsion of the ropes acting on its lower end , and the projectile was hurled towards the target . A more powerful type of stone - throwing engine was the trebuchet , brought a into common use , it seems , towards the 141.
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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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