English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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Page 80
... MOAT BARBICAN MOAT KITCHEN SLYNGWAND HALL CELLAR GRANARY ON GARDEN MIDDLE WARD TOWER ( MORTIMER TOWER ! 60 MOAT 100 120 200 SCALE OF FEET 41 Harlech , Merionethshire , 1283-9 , ground plan . Cf. Fig . 72 ( Plan by C. R. Peers from ...
... MOAT BARBICAN MOAT KITCHEN SLYNGWAND HALL CELLAR GRANARY ON GARDEN MIDDLE WARD TOWER ( MORTIMER TOWER ! 60 MOAT 100 120 200 SCALE OF FEET 41 Harlech , Merionethshire , 1283-9 , ground plan . Cf. Fig . 72 ( Plan by C. R. Peers from ...
Page 93
... MOAT MOAT 100 200 FEET Queenborough , Isle of Sheppey , Kent , c . 1361 ( Traced from a drawing in the Hatfield MSS . by A. W. Clapham ) tower keeps of old , and is a notable feature of a fortress which one would have thought perfectly ...
... MOAT MOAT 100 200 FEET Queenborough , Isle of Sheppey , Kent , c . 1361 ( Traced from a drawing in the Hatfield MSS . by A. W. Clapham ) tower keeps of old , and is a notable feature of a fortress which one would have thought perfectly ...
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... 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 , and the slow elimination of defensive ...
... 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 , and the slow elimination of defensive ...
Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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