English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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... simple but very efficient fortress of earthwork and timber alone . While varying in detail , the vast majority of these castles conform to a basic and distinctive plan . The most prominent and most important feature was a large mound or ...
... simple but very efficient fortress of earthwork and timber alone . While varying in detail , the vast majority of these castles conform to a basic and distinctive plan . The most prominent and most important feature was a large mound or ...
Page 91
... simple bailey , the latter em- bellished only with a rectangular gatehouse in the corner opposite the keep and a small square tower in its south - west angle . Naworth in Cumberland , built about the same time , followed originally the ...
... simple bailey , the latter em- bellished only with a rectangular gatehouse in the corner opposite the keep and a small square tower in its south - west angle . Naworth in Cumberland , built about the same time , followed originally the ...
Page 117
... simple , quick and cheap to construct . A quite small force of un- skilled labour would suffice , directed by some Norman lordling who , having skilfully chosen the site , could adequately control the work . The Bayeux tapestry ...
... simple , quick and cheap to construct . A quite small force of un- skilled labour would suffice , directed by some Norman lordling who , having skilfully chosen the site , could adequately control the work . The Bayeux tapestry ...
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