The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... C12 E O ( Natural ) motte with curved enclosure NE of church . Marked site of 78 ft square keep . Starved into surrender 1138 , beset by siege castle 1147. ( 167 ) . CASTLETHORPE , Buckinghamshire 7944 c . 1157 d . 1215 E O 36 ft high ...
... C12 E O ( Natural ) motte with curved enclosure NE of church . Marked site of 78 ft square keep . Starved into surrender 1138 , beset by siege castle 1147. ( 167 ) . CASTLETHORPE , Buckinghamshire 7944 c . 1157 d . 1215 E O 36 ft high ...
Page 231
... C12 E O Motte - and - bailey ( now cut to by churchyard ) with further oval enclosure . ( 135val enclosure , largely SWINESHEAD , Lincolnshire 2340 C12 E O occupied by low mound . Defences seem to have relied more on water than ...
... C12 E O Motte - and - bailey ( now cut to by churchyard ) with further oval enclosure . ( 135val enclosure , largely SWINESHEAD , Lincolnshire 2340 C12 E O occupied by low mound . Defences seem to have relied more on water than ...
Page 237
... C12 , 13 B- motte - and - bailey probably occupied town site known as the Mount . C13 castle built on present site ... E O Motte - and - bailey between church and river . ( 123 ) . DIXTON , Monmouthshire 5114 C12 E O Motte NE of church ...
... C12 , 13 B- motte - and - bailey probably occupied town site known as the Mount . C13 castle built on present site ... E O Motte - and - bailey between church and river . ( 123 ) . DIXTON , Monmouthshire 5114 C12 E O Motte NE of church ...
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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