The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... Corfe - the head of the Isle of Purbeck . Its constable was Lord Lieutenant and Admiral with power to array the militia , and every tithing ( group of ten householders ) was bound , in time of war , to provide one member of the garrison ...
... Corfe - the head of the Isle of Purbeck . Its constable was Lord Lieutenant and Admiral with power to array the militia , and every tithing ( group of ten householders ) was bound , in time of war , to provide one member of the garrison ...
Page 165
... Corfe ( May 1643 March 1646 ) and Pontefract ( 1648 etc. ) . UTER MOAT KEEP GATE BAILEY INNER MOAT Berkhamsted Showing Siege Works SIEGE - WORKS ' Stephen's rings ' near Corfe were thrown up during his siege ( 1139 ) and later ( 1144 ) ...
... Corfe ( May 1643 March 1646 ) and Pontefract ( 1648 etc. ) . UTER MOAT KEEP GATE BAILEY INNER MOAT Berkhamsted Showing Siege Works SIEGE - WORKS ' Stephen's rings ' near Corfe were thrown up during his siege ( 1139 ) and later ( 1144 ) ...
Page 177
... ( Corfe , Newark ) . Baronial castles were centres of their fief , a place of personal security , tactical rather than strategical ( though they were sometimes placed in mutual support in Marcher country ) . They tended to be built on the ...
... ( Corfe , Newark ) . Baronial castles were centres of their fief , a place of personal security , tactical rather than strategical ( though they were sometimes placed in mutual support in Marcher country ) . They tended to be built on 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 Corfe crenellated crossbow defence ditch domestic buildings Dover Durham earthworks Edward enclosure England entrance examples fire 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 Scarborough Scottish shell-keep siege engines sometimes square stair stone storeys Substantial remains survives timber tower tower-house town walls Trebuchet turrets usually vaulted wall-towers wall-walk Warkworth Warwick wooden Yorkshire