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Page 37
Generally it was not only the immediate successor of the motte - and - bailey , but literally grew out of it , for the great majority of stone castles were raised upon the sites of existing strong- holds , stone walls and buildings ...
Generally it was not only the immediate successor of the motte - and - bailey , but literally grew out of it , for the great majority of stone castles were raised upon the sites of existing strong- holds , stone walls and buildings ...
Page 54
Espe- cially is this true of those castles with shell keeps , for the shell was in- variably placed upon the existing mound , which formed indeed an essential part of it . The tower keep also , when added to an existing castle , was not ...
Espe- cially is this true of those castles with shell keeps , for the shell was in- variably placed upon the existing mound , which formed indeed an essential part of it . The tower keep also , when added to an existing castle , was not ...
Page 109
... hither- to cramped and confined by the overwhelming necessities of defence , is increasingly the measure of new work at existing castles , after the manner , though not always on the scale , of Kenilworth and Windsor .
... hither- to cramped and confined by the overwhelming necessities of defence , is increasingly the measure of new work at existing castles , after the manner , though not always on the scale , of Kenilworth and Windsor .
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Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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accounts addition amongst appearance attack bailey Beaumaris building built Carnarvon carried castle caused centre chamber chapel chapter chronicler common concentrated Conquest contemporary continued course decline defence ditch Dover earlier early Edward England English entrance especially example existing fact feet fire flanking towers followed force fortification fortress fourteenth garrison gate gatehouse hall Henry hundred importance inner John King king's labour land late later least less London lord marched medieval Middle Ages military architecture moat motte mound Norman ordered original outer perhaps period placed present probably raised records reign remains residence residential Rochester Rolls round royal scale seen shell keep side siege simple stands stone strength strong stronghold thirteenth century timber tower keep twelfth century usually Wales walls ward warfare whole Windsor
Bibliographic information
| 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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