English Medieval CastlesBatsford, 1954 - 208 pages |
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Page 56
... perhaps a tower keep standing within the circuit of stockaded earthworks , and there a stone - built bailey lying at the foot of a mound bearing still its palisade and timber tower . It is chiefly because of this continuous development ...
... perhaps a tower keep standing within the circuit of stockaded earthworks , and there a stone - built bailey lying at the foot of a mound bearing still its palisade and timber tower . It is chiefly because of this continuous development ...
Page 91
... perhaps a gatehouse at the other . > In fact it is very difficult to distinguish at all clearly between these lesser castles and the " pele towers " dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and later , which are such a well ...
... perhaps a gatehouse at the other . > In fact it is very difficult to distinguish at all clearly between these lesser castles and the " pele towers " dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and later , which are such a well ...
Page 153
... perhaps because it was thought more honourable to fight in the field , and partly for somewhat less honourable reasons . To be besieged meant not only to be most uncomfortably cut off from the great world of events for possibly a long ...
... perhaps because it was thought more honourable to fight in the field , and partly for somewhat less honourable reasons . To be besieged meant not only to be most uncomfortably cut off from the great world of events for possibly a long ...
Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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