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While their larger enclosures were often surrounded with ordinary ditch - andbank work , in many of these , and in most of the smaller examples , the excavated soil , instead of being used to form a rampart , was spread all over the ...
While their larger enclosures were often surrounded with ordinary ditch - andbank work , in many of these , and in most of the smaller examples , the excavated soil , instead of being used to form a rampart , was spread all over the ...
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on an old site , and neither show the characteristic plan of the Edwardian castle , being long , rather hour - glass like structures surrounded by straight lines of very lofty curtains and many lofty towers .
on an old site , and neither show the characteristic plan of the Edwardian castle , being long , rather hour - glass like structures surrounded by straight lines of very lofty curtains and many lofty towers .
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Then came the stone defensible house still surrounded by a timber palisade . The palisade being replaced by defensible stone walls , the house could then be of timber . When the walls were raised into high curtains , it was obviously ...
Then came the stone defensible house still surrounded by a timber palisade . The palisade being replaced by defensible stone walls , the house could then be of timber . When the walls were raised into high curtains , it was obviously ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Castle British heritage series The English countryside series |
| Author | Hugh Braun |
| Publisher | C. Scribner's sons, 1936 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 16 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 120 pages |
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