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In these late quadrangular castles also - Bodiam , Bolton , Sheriff Hutton , Lumley , the residential buildings become for the first time an integral part of the whole , as opposed to miscellaneous structures placed here and there ...
In these late quadrangular castles also - Bodiam , Bolton , Sheriff Hutton , Lumley , the residential buildings become for the first time an integral part of the whole , as opposed to miscellaneous structures placed here and there ...
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1475 ) , and the late fourteenth - century Nunney and Old Wardour , both previously mentioned . The conservatism of these late medieval keeps , or , more properly perhaps , tower - houses , has recently been denied .
1475 ) , and the late fourteenth - century Nunney and Old Wardour , both previously mentioned . The conservatism of these late medieval keeps , or , more properly perhaps , tower - houses , has recently been denied .
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... a useful indication of the cost of a powerful keep - and - bailey castle newly built in the late twelfth century . Certainly it compares well enough with the known recorded costs of other royal castleworks of about the same date .
... a useful indication of the cost of a powerful keep - and - bailey castle newly built in the late twelfth century . Certainly it compares well enough with the known recorded costs of other royal castleworks of about the same date .
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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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