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GATE STAIRS HOUSE BUT TINY • FANTRY INTHI · JAIKS KITCHEN = SLYNGWIRA HALL CELLAR GRANWARY O MIDDLE WARD 100 MOAT 130 140 200 PRISON TOWER ( DEBTOR'S TOWER MOAT BARBICAN MOAT GARDEN TOWER ( MORTIMER TOWER !
GATE STAIRS HOUSE BUT TINY • FANTRY INTHI · JAIKS KITCHEN = SLYNGWIRA HALL CELLAR GRANWARY O MIDDLE WARD 100 MOAT 130 140 200 PRISON TOWER ( DEBTOR'S TOWER MOAT BARBICAN MOAT GARDEN TOWER ( MORTIMER TOWER !
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clearly visible in our illustration , an im- mensely strong and self - sufficient hexa- gonal tower , standing surrounded by its own moat , and almost en- tirely separate from the main structure , with which it was originally connected ...
clearly visible in our illustration , an im- mensely strong and self - sufficient hexa- gonal tower , standing surrounded by its own moat , and almost en- tirely separate from the main structure , with which it was originally connected ...
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... very often surrounded with a wet moat . This we saw also to be the last logical development of the completely defensible fortress , and in it we can follow , indeed , the gradual decline of the castle as a military building ...
... very often surrounded with a wet moat . This we saw also to be the last logical development of the completely defensible fortress , and in it we can follow , indeed , the gradual decline of the castle as a military building ...
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Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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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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