English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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... ditch , lay the bailey , a simple enclosure marked out and defended by its own earthen rampart and deep ditch with counterscarp . This ditch ran into the ditch of the mound so that the plan of the ... DITCH ditches themselves were 25.
... ditch , lay the bailey , a simple enclosure marked out and defended by its own earthen rampart and deep ditch with counterscarp . This ditch ran into the ditch of the mound so that the plan of the ... DITCH ditches themselves were 25.
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... DITCH ditches themselves were where possible - but by no means invari- ably - filled with water . Upon the summit of the mound and within its stockade rose usually a wooden tower , an ultimate strongpoint and vantage point of the castle ...
... DITCH ditches themselves were where possible - but by no means invari- ably - filled with water . Upon the summit of the mound and within its stockade rose usually a wooden tower , an ultimate strongpoint and vantage point of the castle ...
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... ditch as broad and deep as possible . They surround the upper edge of this hill with a very strong wall of hewn logs , placing [ small ] towers on the circuit , according to their means . Inside this wall they plant their house or keep ...
... ditch as broad and deep as possible . They surround the upper edge of this hill with a very strong wall of hewn logs , placing [ small ] towers on the circuit , according to their means . Inside this wall they plant their house or keep ...
Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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amongst attack barbican barons Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris Bedford Bréauté building built Caerphilly Carnarvon Castle Hedingham Castle Rising castle-building castle's castles in Wales centre chamber chapel Château-Gaillard chronicler concentric castle Conquest contemporary Conway decline defence ditch Dover Durham Earl early earthwork Edward eleventh century England English castle English medieval entrance example feature flanking towers fortification fortress fourteenth century garrison gate gatehouse gateway Ground plan hall Harlech Henry II inner bailey keep-and-bailey castle Kenilworth Kent Kidwelly King John king's Kirby Muxloe labour later Middle Ages lord machicolated mangonel medieval castle 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 ramparts records reign residence residential Rochester rôle royal castles shell keep side siege siege-craft stands stone castle storey strength stronghold Suffolk surviving thirteenth century timber Tower of London tower-house twelfth century warfare whole Windsor Yorkshire