English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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Page 56
... perhaps a tower keep standing within the circuit of stockaded earthworks , and there a stone - built bailey lying at the foot of a mound bearing still its palisade and timber tower . It is chiefly because of this continuous development ...
... perhaps a tower keep standing within the circuit of stockaded earthworks , and there a stone - built bailey lying at the foot of a mound bearing still its palisade and timber tower . It is chiefly because of this continuous development ...
Page 120
... perhaps with the over - confidence of age , that five or six marks a year ( a mark was 13s . 4d . ) would have adequately supported him as a scholar at the University ; when the constable of one of the king's castles might receive no ...
... perhaps with the over - confidence of age , that five or six marks a year ( a mark was 13s . 4d . ) would have adequately supported him as a scholar at the University ; when the constable of one of the king's castles might receive no ...
Page 128
... perhaps the most exciting revelation made by these accounts , over and above the great cost of the work which they show , is the size and composition of the labour force involved . At Harlech in the summer of 1286 an average weekly ...
... perhaps the most exciting revelation made by these accounts , over and above the great cost of the work which they show , is the size and composition of the labour force involved . At Harlech in the summer of 1286 an average weekly ...
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