English Castles, Volume 22B. T. Batsford, 1962 - 207 pages |
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Page 33
... 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 travel far to find one . But when the locality is reached little ...
... 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 travel far to find one . But when the locality is reached little ...
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... hundred and fifty - two feet by one hundred and eleven ; the height may no longer be determined since the upper storeys have now disappeared . The White Tower at London ( 27 ) rivals Colchester , mea- suring one hundred and eighteen ...
... hundred and fifty - two feet by one hundred and eleven ; the height may no longer be determined since the upper storeys have now disappeared . The White Tower at London ( 27 ) rivals Colchester , mea- suring one hundred and eighteen ...
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... hundred chickens , five thousand eggs , twenty oxen , one hundred pigs and one hundred sheep ; or when everywhere upon the records we meet the endless convoys of good wine rolling towards the royal castles . At the same time it must be ...
... hundred chickens , five thousand eggs , twenty oxen , one hundred pigs and one hundred sheep ; or when everywhere upon the records we meet the endless convoys of good wine rolling towards the royal castles . At the same time it must be ...
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