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At the foot of the mound , but separated from it by its 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 ...
At the foot of the mound , but separated from it by its 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 ...
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Quite often , as at Castle Acre again or at Pleshey in Essex , a further ditch sweeps away from the castle to take in the town against which it was placed or which grew up in its shelter . Whatever their precise shape and plan ...
Quite often , as at Castle Acre again or at Pleshey in Essex , a further ditch sweeps away from the castle to take in the town against which it was placed or which grew up in its shelter . Whatever their precise shape and plan ...
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Entrance to the castle was gained by a wooden bridge , probably some form of drawbridge , over the ditch of the bailey , and by a gateway in the stockade , made as strong as possible and often further defended by wooden towers .
Entrance to the castle was gained by a wooden bridge , probably some form of drawbridge , over the ditch of the bailey , and by a gateway in the stockade , made as strong as possible and often further defended by wooden towers .
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