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Carnarvon ( 1293-1323 ) and Conway ( 1283–7 ) may be taken to- gether as the two grandest examples in Britain of the new type of castle whose whole united strength was provided by the single cir- cuit of its towered walls ( 38 , 39 , 69 ...
Carnarvon ( 1293-1323 ) and Conway ( 1283–7 ) may be taken to- gether as the two grandest examples in Britain of the new type of castle whose whole united strength was provided by the single cir- cuit of its towered walls ( 38 , 39 , 69 ...
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The main enclosure , the inner ward or bailey , which is usually quadrangular in plan , is surrounded by a further wall , often with its own flanking towers , slighter in strength and lower in elevation than the main towered wall which ...
The main enclosure , the inner ward or bailey , which is usually quadrangular in plan , is surrounded by a further wall , often with its own flanking towers , slighter in strength and lower in elevation than the main towered wall which ...
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A tower , on the other hand , was in any period the most obvious form of defensible residence , and the simplest means of drawing strength and comfort together into a small space . The tower - houses of the fourteenth and fifteenth ...
A tower , on the other hand , was in any period the most obvious form of defensible residence , and the simplest means of drawing strength and comfort together into a small space . The tower - houses of the fourteenth and fifteenth ...
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Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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Bibliographic information
| 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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