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18 SCALE OF 10 5 O 10 120 30 40 FEET FORE- BUILDING ERNEST LR . RAMBUA H.M. Stationery Office ) FORE . BUILDING BASEMENT PLAN SCALE OF FEET 12TH CENTURY. Castle Hedingham , Essex , section through keep . Cf. Fig .
18 SCALE OF 10 5 O 10 120 30 40 FEET FORE- BUILDING ERNEST LR . RAMBUA H.M. Stationery Office ) FORE . BUILDING BASEMENT PLAN SCALE OF FEET 12TH CENTURY. Castle Hedingham , Essex , section through keep . Cf. Fig .
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At Dover the walls of Henry II's great keep are from twenty - one to twenty - four feet wide ; at Newcastle they measure fourteen feet at first - floor level ; at Rochester they are twelve feet at the base and ten at the top .
At Dover the walls of Henry II's great keep are from twenty - one to twenty - four feet wide ; at Newcastle they measure fourteen feet at first - floor level ; at Rochester they are twelve feet at the base and ten at the top .
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all the twelfth - century keeps and also , so far as we know , the most expensive , measures ninety - eight feet by ninety - six feet at the base , and is some eighty feet high . The more modest but very fine keep at Bamburgh , roughly ...
all the twelfth - century keeps and also , so far as we know , the most expensive , measures ninety - eight feet by ninety - six feet at the base , and is some eighty feet high . The more modest but very fine keep at Bamburgh , roughly ...
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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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