The English CastleC. Scribner's sons, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... fine keep was battered down by Cromwell's artillery in 1644 . The same fate befell the interesting keep at Helmsley in the same county , which was built at the very end of the twelfth century by Robert de Roos . The square keep was in ...
... fine keep was battered down by Cromwell's artillery in 1644 . The same fate befell the interesting keep at Helmsley in the same county , which was built at the very end of the twelfth century by Robert de Roos . The square keep was in ...
Page 84
... fine fourteenth - century hall still remains at Caerphilly in Glamorgan , of which castle , once the finest in England , I shall have more to say later . The rather earlier hall at Ludlow has already been mentioned . Conway Castle has ...
... fine fourteenth - century hall still remains at Caerphilly in Glamorgan , of which castle , once the finest in England , I shall have more to say later . The rather earlier hall at Ludlow has already been mentioned . Conway Castle has ...
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... fine mound remains ) , Northampton ( now the L.M.S. Goods Yard ) , Oxford , Oakham and Marlborough ( a fine motte remains ) . Lancaster castle comes all by itself , and then are noted the great castles of Windsor , Devizes and ...
... fine mound remains ) , Northampton ( now the L.M.S. Goods Yard ) , Oxford , Oakham and Marlborough ( a fine motte remains ) . Lancaster castle comes all by itself , and then are noted the great castles of Windsor , Devizes and ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
Copyright | |
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