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The defences of this stronghold were completed by timber stockades , and within these were raised those buildings , also of timber , necessary to make the castle habitable . A stockade of stout timber posts , bound together , crowned ...
The defences of this stronghold were completed by timber stockades , and within these were raised those buildings , also of timber , necessary to make the castle habitable . A stockade of stout timber posts , bound together , crowned ...
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Further , the transition from the castle of earthwork and timber to the castle of stone , in England as on the Continent , was the effect as well as the cause of the adoption during the twelfth century of im- proved methods of siege ...
Further , the transition from the castle of earthwork and timber to the castle of stone , in England as on the Continent , was the effect as well as the cause of the adoption during the twelfth century of im- proved methods of siege ...
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Within the strong en- closure of the new and embattled wall , and upon the summit of the motte , the old timber tower - house was in due course replaced by such stone buildings as were necessary either to the residence of the lord or to ...
Within the strong en- closure of the new and embattled wall , and upon the summit of the motte , the old timber tower - house was in due course replaced by such stone buildings as were necessary either to the residence of the lord or to ...
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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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