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The stronghold of the family of de Chaworth , built in the form in which it now stands in the late thirteenth and early four- teenth centuries , it is , if we exclude its outworks to north and south , a concentric castle with a ...
The stronghold of the family of de Chaworth , built in the form in which it now stands in the late thirteenth and early four- teenth centuries , it is , if we exclude its outworks to north and south , a concentric castle with a ...
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occupies the centre of the north face and a lesser postern gatetower stands opposite on the south , both heavily machicolated . In the centre of each remaining side , to east and west , stands a rectangular tower .
occupies the centre of the north face and a lesser postern gatetower stands opposite on the south , both heavily machicolated . In the centre of each remaining side , to east and west , stands a rectangular tower .
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At Little Wenham in Suffolk ( 56 ) there still stands , in perfect and inhabited preservation , a very pleasing thirteenth - century example of such a defensible house , in form something between a small rectangular tower keep and such ...
At Little Wenham in Suffolk ( 56 ) there still stands , in perfect and inhabited preservation , a very pleasing thirteenth - century example of such a defensible house , in form something between a small rectangular tower keep and such ...
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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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