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The entrance to the keep , also for obvious reasons , is very seldom on the ground level , and most usually leads into the first storey , though occasionally into the second . It is approached by an external staircase at right angles to ...
The entrance to the keep , also for obvious reasons , is very seldom on the ground level , and most usually leads into the first storey , though occasionally into the second . It is approached by an external staircase at right angles to ...
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Each floor usually consists of one large apartment with or without lesser chambers . Some of the larger towers , like Chipchase , have a small projecting wing , giving to the whole a truncated L - shaped plan , and containing small ...
Each floor usually consists of one large apartment with or without lesser chambers . Some of the larger towers , like Chipchase , have a small projecting wing , giving to the whole a truncated L - shaped plan , and containing small ...
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The commanding officer of the garrison was usually the constable , to whom the custody of the castle was entrusted . On the whole it is not common to find the lord of the castle present at time of siege , partly perhaps because it was ...
The commanding officer of the garrison was usually the constable , to whom the custody of the castle was entrusted . On the whole it is not common to find the lord of the castle present at time of siege , partly perhaps because it was ...
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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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