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Stone fortification in eleventh - century England is altogether ex- ceptional , but to the examples of the Conqueror's massive keeps at Colchester and the Tower we may probably add the keeps at Bram- ber and at Pevensey , and certainly ...
Stone fortification in eleventh - century England is altogether ex- ceptional , but to the examples of the Conqueror's massive keeps at Colchester and the Tower we may probably add the keeps at Bram- ber and at Pevensey , and certainly ...
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The basement was probably always used for the storage both of provisions and arms . The principal upper floor formed the hall for the lord and his family . Where there was more than one upper floor , the first was probably given over to ...
The basement was probably always used for the storage both of provisions and arms . The principal upper floor formed the hall for the lord and his family . Where there was more than one upper floor , the first was probably given over to ...
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In all , early cannon were probably as dangerous to their users as to the foe , and their chief value seems to have been their effect upon the morale of the enemy ( and , one imagines , of his horses ) rather than any damage they ...
In all , early cannon were probably as dangerous to their users as to the foe , and their chief value seems to have been their effect upon the morale of the enemy ( and , one imagines , of his horses ) rather than any damage they ...
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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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