The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 67
... Alnwick ( C14 ) is a miniature keep with loops and machicolation . There are strong gatehouses at Battle , Bury St Edmunds , Tutley , Ely , Suffolk , St Albans . Ewenny priory , Glamorgan , is one of the most completely fortified ...
... Alnwick ( C14 ) is a miniature keep with loops and machicolation . There are strong gatehouses at Battle , Bury St Edmunds , Tutley , Ely , Suffolk , St Albans . Ewenny priory , Glamorgan , is one of the most completely fortified ...
Page 72
... Alnwick , Arundel , Egremont , Rising ( almost lost in later earth rampart ) , Sherborne . Warkworth represents the latest military thinking of C12 and Renn describes it as the first true twin - towered gatehouse since Roman times . It ...
... Alnwick , Arundel , Egremont , Rising ( almost lost in later earth rampart ) , Sherborne . Warkworth represents the latest military thinking of C12 and Renn describes it as the first true twin - towered gatehouse since Roman times . It ...
Page 194
... Alnwick . Even in a keep , wells were conveniently placed near the kitchen which were otherwise provided with a convenient access to the well - shaft ( Canterbury , Rochester ) . Some early keeps have them rather inconveniently in the ...
... Alnwick . Even in a keep , wells were conveniently placed near the kitchen which were otherwise provided with a convenient access to the well - shaft ( Canterbury , Rochester ) . Some early keeps have them rather inconveniently in the ...
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Aberdeenshire Alnwick assault Bamburgh barbican barmkin baronial basement battlements Beaumaris besiegers built C12 E O Caernarvon Caerphilly chamber chapel Chepstow church Conisbrough constable Conway crenellated crossbow defence ditch domestic buildings Dover Durham earthworks Edward enclosure engines England entrance examples fireplace flanking floor forebuilding fortified manor-house fragments ft high garrison gate gatehouse ground hall Harlech Henry Henry III Herefordshire inner bailey Invernesshire keep Kenilworth Kidwelly kitchen knights L-plan later London Tower loops lord machicolated manor masonry mediaeval moat motte motte-and-bailey mound mural murder-holes Newcastle Norman North Riding Northumberland original outer bailey palisade parapet pele pele-tower Pontefract Portchester portcullis postern prison protected rectangular remains of curtain ring-work Rochester roof royal castles ruins Scottish shell-keep siege sometimes square stair stone storeys Substantial remains survives timber tower tower-house town walls turrets usually vaulted wall-towers wall-walk Warkworth Warwick wooden Yorkshire