English Castles, Volume 22B. T. Batsford, 1962 - 207 pages |
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... ditch , lay the bailey , a simple enclosure marked out and defended by its own earthen rampart and deep ditch with counterscarp . This ditch ran into the ditch of the mound so that the plan of the whole position is rather like a figure ...
... ditch , lay the bailey , a simple enclosure marked out and defended by its own earthen rampart and deep ditch with counterscarp . This ditch ran into the ditch of the mound so that the plan of the whole position is rather like a figure ...
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... ditch sweeps away from the castle to take in the town against which it was placed or which grew up in its shelter ... ditches of both mound and bailey , also had often its own additional defence of bristling stakes or , perhaps , a close ...
... ditch sweeps away from the castle to take in the town against which it was placed or which grew up in its shelter ... ditches of both mound and bailey , also had often its own additional defence of bristling stakes or , perhaps , a close ...
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... ditch of the bailey , and by a gateway in the stockade , made as strong as possible and often further defended by wooden towers . Communi- cation between the mound , surrounded by its own ditch , and the bailey , was provided generally ...
... ditch of the bailey , and by a gateway in the stockade , made as strong as possible and often further defended by wooden towers . Communi- cation between the mound , surrounded by its own ditch , and the bailey , was provided generally ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 11 |
Introduction | 17 |
Early Stone Castles 35 336 | 35 |
Copyright | |
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amongst attack barbican Beaumaris Bedford Bodiam Bréauté building built Caerphilly Carnarvon Castle Hedingham Castle Rising castle-building castle's castles in Wales centre chamber chapel Château-Gaillard chronicler concentrated concentric castle Conquest contemporary Conway decline defence ditch Dover earl early earthwork Edward England English castles English Medieval Castles entrance example flanking towers fortification fortress fourteenth century garrison gate gatehouse gateway ground plan hall Harlech Henry II inner bailey inner ward keep-and-bailey castle Kenilworth Kidwelly King John king's Kirby Muxloe knights labour later Middle Ages lord machicolated mangonel medieval military architecture Middle Ages military importance moat motte motte-and-bailey motte-and-bailey castle mound Norman Orford outer bailey pele towers perhaps period Pipe Rolls quadrangular raised records reign residence residential Rhuddlan Rochester rôle round royal castles shell keep side siege siege-craft stands stone castle storey strength stronghold Suffolk surviving thirteenth century timber tower keep Tower of London tower-house tury twelfth century walls warfare whole William Windsor