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The defences of this stronghold were completed by timber stockades , and within these were raised those buildings , also of timber , necessary to make the castle habitable . A stockade of stout timber posts , bound together , crowned ...
The defences of this stronghold were completed by timber stockades , and within these were raised those buildings , also of timber , necessary to make the castle habitable . A stockade of stout timber posts , bound together , crowned ...
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Many of these early strongholds were later converted into stone fortresses , and in consequence at many of our finest surviving castles , at Windsor ( 37 ) for example , or at Warwick , Arundel or Durham , the original motte - and ...
Many of these early strongholds were later converted into stone fortresses , and in consequence at many of our finest surviving castles , at Windsor ( 37 ) for example , or at Warwick , Arundel or Durham , the original motte - and ...
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... faroff origins in ninth - century France or in the England of the Norman Conquest , and military necessity which caused precisely that fusion of the dwelling and the stronghold which is the peculiar characteristic of the castle .
... faroff origins in ninth - century France or in the England of the Norman Conquest , and military necessity which caused precisely that fusion of the dwelling and the stronghold which is the peculiar characteristic of the castle .
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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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