English Medieval CastlesBatsford, 1954 - 208 pages |
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... mound , but separated from it by its ditch , lay the bailey , a simple enclosure marked out and defended by its own earthen rampart and deep ditch with counterscarp . This ditch ran into the ditch of the mound so that the plan of the ...
... mound , but separated from it by its ditch , lay the bailey , a simple enclosure marked out and defended by its own earthen rampart and deep ditch with counterscarp . This ditch ran into the ditch of the mound so that the plan of the ...
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... mound was simply replaced by a stone wall . This type of ring wall crowning a mound is known as a shell keep . It was linked to the defences of the bailey , for the bailey wall was con- tinued up the two sides of the motte , just as the ...
... mound was simply replaced by a stone wall . This type of ring wall crowning a mound is known as a shell keep . It was linked to the defences of the bailey , for the bailey wall was con- tinued up the two sides of the motte , just as the ...
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... mound , which formed indeed an essential part of it . The tower keep also , when added to an existing castle , was not infrequently placed upon the mound , especially if the mound was large , or wholly or partly natural , as at Norwich ...
... mound , which formed indeed an essential part of it . The tower keep also , when added to an existing castle , was not infrequently placed upon the mound , especially if the mound was large , or wholly or partly natural , as at Norwich ...
Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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amongst attack barbican barons Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris Bedford Bréauté building built Caerphilly Carnarvon Castle Hedingham Castle Rising castle-building castle's castles in Wales centre chamber chapel Château-Gaillard chronicler concentrated concentric castle Conquest contemporary Conway decline defence ditch Dover Durham Earl early earthwork Edward eleventh century England English castles English medieval entrance example feature flanking towers fortification fortress fourteenth century garrison gate gatehouse gateway Ground plan hall Harlech Henry II inner bailey keep-and-bailey castle Kenilworth Kidwelly King John king's Kirby Muxloe labour later Middle Ages lord machicolated mangonel medieval castle medieval military architecture Middle Ages military importance moat motte motte-and-bailey motte-and-bailey castle mound Norman Orford outer bailey pele towers perhaps period Pipe Rolls quadrangular raised ramparts records reign residence residential Rochester rôle royal castles shell keep side siege siege-craft stands stone castle storey strength stronghold Suffolk surviving thirteenth century timber Tower of London tower-house twelfth century warfare whole Windsor Yorkshire