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Particular attention was paid to the fortification of the gateway , which as the principal or only entrance to the castle was always a possible weak point , and one which generally received the first and most concentrated attentions of ...
Particular attention was paid to the fortification of the gateway , which as the principal or only entrance to the castle was always a possible weak point , and one which generally received the first and most concentrated attentions of ...
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The gateway , once a weak point simply by reason of being an entrance , now becomes the strongest point in the whole ... Thus the entrances to Henry II's new inner bailey at Dover were defended by placing stone towers on either side of ...
The gateway , once a weak point simply by reason of being an entrance , now becomes the strongest point in the whole ... Thus the entrances to Henry II's new inner bailey at Dover were defended by placing stone towers on either side of ...
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The loftier wall of the inner bailey was defended by six cylindrical towers , two of which were placed close together on the east to form the main entrance . The residential buildings of the castle were ranged round the wall of the ...
The loftier wall of the inner bailey was defended by six cylindrical towers , two of which were placed close together on the east to form the main entrance . The residential buildings of the castle were ranged round the wall of the ...
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Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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| Title | English Medieval Castles |
| Author | Reginald Allen Brown |
| Publisher | Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 24 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 208 pages |
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