The English CastleC. Scribner's sons, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Hugh Braun. ( sometimes only the latter goes down to the storage base- ment ) . The entrance on the first floor being rather exposed to projectiles , it was usually covered by a small tower called a " forebuilding , " in the side of ...
Hugh Braun. ( sometimes only the latter goes down to the storage base- ment ) . The entrance on the first floor being rather exposed to projectiles , it was usually covered by a small tower called a " forebuilding , " in the side of ...
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Hugh Braun. Castle Acre in Norfolk , while at Mileham nearby is the base- ment storey of a small example in a very forlorn condition . We have seen how the primitive timber hall was first raised on a basement , then reorganised and ...
Hugh Braun. Castle Acre in Norfolk , while at Mileham nearby is the base- ment storey of a small example in a very forlorn condition . We have seen how the primitive timber hall was first raised on a basement , then reorganised and ...
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... base . The round tower - keep continued to be used on the Con- tinent long after its abandonment in this country , as once witnessed the glorious donjon of Coucy near Laon , built towards the end of the first half of the thirteenth ...
... base . The round tower - keep continued to be used on the Con- tinent long after its abandonment in this country , as once witnessed the glorious donjon of Coucy near Laon , built towards the end of the first half of the thirteenth ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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