English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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Page 117
... labour it em- ployed , and who were the master craftsmen who planned and directed its construction . Though the fact must not be allowed to detract from their con- temporary strength and efficiency , it is obvious that the early Nor ...
... labour it em- ployed , and who were the master craftsmen who planned and directed its construction . Though the fact must not be allowed to detract from their con- temporary strength and efficiency , it is obvious that the early Nor ...
Page 118
... labour supplied the neces- sary man - power , and the unfortunate English were compelled to raise the symbols and guarantees of their continued conquest . We have heard before the cry of the Peterborough chronicler , writing in the ...
... labour supplied the neces- sary man - power , and the unfortunate English were compelled to raise the symbols and guarantees of their continued conquest . We have heard before the cry of the Peterborough chronicler , writing in the ...
Page 128
... labour force involved . At Harlech in the summer of 1286 an average weekly number of nearly one thousand men were employed . The three castles of Conway , Carnarvon and Harlech employed between them an average of some two thousand five ...
... labour force involved . At Harlech in the summer of 1286 an average weekly number of nearly one thousand men were employed . The three castles of Conway , Carnarvon and Harlech employed between them an average of some two thousand five ...
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