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The essential feature of the flanking tower was that it should project outwards , and in consequence it was sometimes built as a half - cylinder or polygon , its inner face being more or less flush with the line of the wall .
The essential feature of the flanking tower was that it should project outwards , and in consequence it was sometimes built as a half - cylinder or polygon , its inner face being more or less flush with the line of the wall .
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The penthouses themselves , and also the belfries and the stone - throwing engines , were commonly covered with raw hides , or sometimes metal plates , for being constructed of timber they were otherwise inflammable , and were the ...
The penthouses themselves , and also the belfries and the stone - throwing engines , were commonly covered with raw hides , or sometimes metal plates , for being constructed of timber they were otherwise inflammable , and were the ...
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In the years which followed , many of them and some hastily fortified and gallantly defended manor houses as wellheld out stoutly , usually for the King , sometimes in local conflicts and sometimes against the full force of ...
In the years which followed , many of them and some hastily fortified and gallantly defended manor houses as wellheld out stoutly , usually for the King , sometimes in local conflicts and sometimes against the full force of ...
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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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