The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 54
... Conway , Corfe , Portchester , Queenborough , Rochester , Southampton , Tintagel , Trematon , Winchester castles . Town walls at Canterbury and elsewhere were strengthened and many private houses were granted licences to crenellate ...
... Conway , Corfe , Portchester , Queenborough , Rochester , Southampton , Tintagel , Trematon , Winchester castles . Town walls at Canterbury and elsewhere were strengthened and many private houses were granted licences to crenellate ...
Page 182
... Conway is a cul - de - sac , one gate leads to the quay , another to town and castle and the third to the castle - mill . This last ( 1286 ) cost £ 150 excluding cost of stone and wages for quarrying , cutting and carting . Caernarvon ...
... Conway is a cul - de - sac , one gate leads to the quay , another to town and castle and the third to the castle - mill . This last ( 1286 ) cost £ 150 excluding cost of stone and wages for quarrying , cutting and carting . Caernarvon ...
Page 190
... Conway , Raglan , Warwick ) . Developed wall towers served a double purpose : ( a ) They flanked the wall so that each pair covered the entire face of the intervening wall . ( b ) They commanded the rampart - walk so that a successful ...
... Conway , Raglan , Warwick ) . Developed wall towers served a double purpose : ( a ) They flanked the wall so that each pair covered the entire face of the intervening wall . ( b ) They commanded the rampart - walk so that a successful ...
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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