English Castles, Volume 22B. T. Batsford, 1962 - 207 pages |
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Page 43
... round the summit of the motte , is built round its base , and is then carried up as a revetment to the whole mound . The shell keep is a common feature of the English castle both because it could most easily be added to an existing ...
... round the summit of the motte , is built round its base , and is then carried up as a revetment to the whole mound . The shell keep is a common feature of the English castle both because it could most easily be added to an existing ...
Page 97
... round its cir- cumference , exposed all the way to the fire - power of the inner walls , to reach the entrance of the inner bailey from which he is still cut off by its passage walls . Queenborough was a royal castle , commissioned by ...
... round its cir- cumference , exposed all the way to the fire - power of the inner walls , to reach the entrance of the inner bailey from which he is still cut off by its passage walls . Queenborough was a royal castle , commissioned by ...
Page 100
... round four sides of a quadrangle , they could contain not only the communal hall , chapel , kitchens , guardrooms and the like , but also a greater number of more conveniently disposed private chambers which changing social standards ...
... round four sides of a quadrangle , they could contain not only the communal hall , chapel , kitchens , guardrooms and the like , but also a greater number of more conveniently disposed private chambers which changing social standards ...
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