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Page 88
At many other castles the developments of the period were piecemeal only : the addition of flanking towers , like the Gray Mare's Tail at Warkworth , to weaker or more exposed sections of the curtain ; the provision upon an existing ...
At many other castles the developments of the period were piecemeal only : the addition of flanking towers , like the Gray Mare's Tail at Warkworth , to weaker or more exposed sections of the curtain ; the provision upon an existing ...
Page 105
It is an even stronger proof of the declining military importance of the castle that they , no less than the new buildings of the period , show in their development or perhaps we should say in their decline during the roughly defined ...
It is an even stronger proof of the declining military importance of the castle that they , no less than the new buildings of the period , show in their development or perhaps we should say in their decline during the roughly defined ...
Page 116
us to the quite considerable amount of stone fortification carried out in the first century after the Norman Conquest -a period to which , after all , the great square keeps of the Tower of London , Colchester , Rochester , Carlisle and ...
us to the quite considerable amount of stone fortification carried out in the first century after the Norman Conquest -a period to which , after all , the great square keeps of the Tower of London , Colchester , Rochester , Carlisle and ...
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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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