English Castles, Volume 22B. T. Batsford, 1962 - 207 pages |
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Page 36
... continued to be crowned with a timber tower until the present remarkable stone keep ( 15 ) was built by Henry III between 1245 and 1272. Until at least the early years of the thirteenth century strongholds of earth and timber continued ...
... continued to be crowned with a timber tower until the present remarkable stone keep ( 15 ) was built by Henry III between 1245 and 1272. Until at least the early years of the thirteenth century strongholds of earth and timber continued ...
Page 85
... continued by his successors in the thirteenth century , produced another large , though less regular , concentric fortress , the great keep and inner bailey being surrounded and flanked by the sweeping outer cur- tain , with its long ...
... continued by his successors in the thirteenth century , produced another large , though less regular , concentric fortress , the great keep and inner bailey being surrounded and flanked by the sweeping outer cur- tain , with its long ...
Page 197
... continued , augment- ed no doubt by long - established outlook and habit — just as the traditions of a military aristocracy continued to de- mand a façade of martial splendour upon their new houses . Only perhaps by the mid - sixteenth ...
... continued , augment- ed no doubt by long - established outlook and habit — just as the traditions of a military aristocracy continued to de- mand a façade of martial splendour upon their new houses . Only perhaps by the mid - sixteenth ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 11 |
Introduction | 17 |
Early Stone Castles 35 336 | 35 |
Copyright | |
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