English Medieval CastlesBatsford, 1954 - 208 pages |
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Page 33
... early abandoned and perhaps therefore never fortified in stone , the unmistakable mounds at least , and often the lines of ditches and ramparts , still trium- phantly survive . There is scarcely any district which cannot show the ...
... early abandoned and perhaps therefore never fortified in stone , the unmistakable mounds at least , and often the lines of ditches and ramparts , still trium- phantly survive . There is scarcely any district which cannot show the ...
Page 37
... early stone castle , which we may roughly assign to the second half of the twelfth and first half of the thirteenth centuries when it was most common , is best described as the keep- and - bailey castle . Generally it was not only the ...
... early stone castle , which we may roughly assign to the second half of the twelfth and first half of the thirteenth centuries when it was most common , is best described as the keep- and - bailey castle . Generally it was not only the ...
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... early stone halls of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , in turn , differ little from the more spacious halls of the later Middle Ages — at Caerphilly , Warwick or Kenil- worth or indeed from the halls of Oxford and Cambridge ...
... early stone halls of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , in turn , differ little from the more spacious halls of the later Middle Ages — at Caerphilly , Warwick or Kenil- worth or indeed from the halls of Oxford and Cambridge ...
Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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