English Medieval CastlesBatsford, 1954 - 208 pages |
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Page 76
... walls is known as the lists , and is quite narrow at least in those castles built from their foundation on the concentric pattern . It was generally divided by cross - walls into sections , so that an enemy , having broken through the ...
... walls is known as the lists , and is quite narrow at least in those castles built from their foundation on the concentric pattern . It was generally divided by cross - walls into sections , so that an enemy , having broken through the ...
Page 79
... walls are divided at least at one point by a cross - wall , and in the inner ward the residential apartments , other than those within the gatehouse , are logically and neatly ranged along , and sheltered by , the walls . The defences ...
... walls are divided at least at one point by a cross - wall , and in the inner ward the residential apartments , other than those within the gatehouse , are logically and neatly ranged along , and sheltered by , the walls . The defences ...
Page 94
... walls , to reach the entrance of the inner bailey from which he is still cut off by its passage walls . Queenborough , a royal castle commissioned by Edward III to guard the coast against the possibility of French in- vasion , and named ...
... walls , to reach the entrance of the inner bailey from which he is still cut off by its passage walls . Queenborough , a royal castle commissioned by Edward III to guard the coast against the possibility of French in- vasion , and named ...
Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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