The English CastleC. Scribner's sons, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 39
... whole angle was undermined with cross - galleries until the props could be fired and the whole corner of the keep , over a hundred feet high to the top of the turret , toppled over down the hillside . Fig . 42 shows the angle of the ...
... whole angle was undermined with cross - galleries until the props could be fired and the whole corner of the keep , over a hundred feet high to the top of the turret , toppled over down the hillside . Fig . 42 shows the angle of the ...
Page 60
... whole shield became shorter and less pointed , the shape being rather like that of a flat - iron . It will be appreciated that the whole point of building a garrison fortress ( as opposed to a residential castle ) was that the passive ...
... whole shield became shorter and less pointed , the shape being rather like that of a flat - iron . It will be appreciated that the whole point of building a garrison fortress ( as opposed to a residential castle ) was that the passive ...
Page 78
... whole , however , such large structures must have been the exception rather than the rule , the average castle hall being of the simple type with or without a chamber at its upper end . The reason for the comprehensive accommodation ...
... whole , however , such large structures must have been the exception rather than the rule , the average castle hall being of the simple type with or without a chamber at its upper end . The reason for the comprehensive accommodation ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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