The English CastleC. Scribner's sons, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 28
... raised over a storage basement . Up to the end of the tenth century these buildings were probably all of timber . It is thought that the reason why so few stone domestic buildings were erected prior to the year 1000 was the popular ...
... raised over a storage basement . Up to the end of the tenth century these buildings were probably all of timber . It is thought that the reason why so few stone domestic buildings were erected prior to the year 1000 was the popular ...
Page 38
... raised on a basement , then reorganised and raised to the dignity of a great tower of masonry . The scale and dignity of these great towers must have appealed to the minds of the Norman feudal lords , and from the end of the eleventh ...
... raised on a basement , then reorganised and raised to the dignity of a great tower of masonry . The scale and dignity of these great towers must have appealed to the minds of the Norman feudal lords , and from the end of the eleventh ...
Page 76
... raised and crenellated so as to turn it into a sort of keep , the upper floor being , perhaps , the chamber . The absence of fireplaces is a noticeable feature of most early stone halls . The usual position for the fire in an early ...
... raised and crenellated so as to turn it into a sort of keep , the upper floor being , perhaps , the chamber . The absence of fireplaces is a noticeable feature of most early stone halls . The usual position for the fire in an early ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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