Medieval England, Volume 1Austin Lane Poole Clarendon Press, 1958 - 661 pages Volume 1 looks at the English countryside, domestic and military architecture, warefare, shipping, communications, towns & trade, coinage, clothing, arms & armor, and heraldry. |
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Page 109
... round or round - fronted tower which was to be the most characteristic component of castle construction for the next two hundred years . Most notable among them are the keeps at Orford in Suffolk and Conisborough in Yorkshire . Orford ...
... round or round - fronted tower which was to be the most characteristic component of castle construction for the next two hundred years . Most notable among them are the keeps at Orford in Suffolk and Conisborough in Yorkshire . Orford ...
Page 110
... round keeps , a great unbuttressed free - standing tower , four storeys high , and still preserving intact its original stone saucer - vault ( Pl . 6 ) . At Cilgerran in the same county , likewise , at the time of building , a Marshal ...
... round keeps , a great unbuttressed free - standing tower , four storeys high , and still preserving intact its original stone saucer - vault ( Pl . 6 ) . At Cilgerran in the same county , likewise , at the time of building , a Marshal ...
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... round which a new town slowly developed . So it was with St. Albans . When King Offa had made search for the body of the martyred soldier Alban , he founded a monastery for the preservation of the relics on a hill near the abandoned ...
... round which a new town slowly developed . So it was with St. Albans . When King Offa had made search for the body of the martyred soldier Alban , he founded a monastery for the preservation of the relics on a hill near the abandoned ...
Contents
in Economic History in the University of Oxford | 1 |
land and Fen 1417 4 The Moorlands 1819 5 The Monastic | 7 |
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE AND TOWNPLAN | 37 |
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