The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 83
... Kenilworth with 100 acres of water defences , London , York ) but the main emphasis was on gatehouse defence ( barbicans at Bristol , Dover , Lincoln , Marlborough , Scarborough , Shrewsbury , Windsor ) or on strengthening enceinte by ...
... Kenilworth with 100 acres of water defences , London , York ) but the main emphasis was on gatehouse defence ( barbicans at Bristol , Dover , Lincoln , Marlborough , Scarborough , Shrewsbury , Windsor ) or on strengthening enceinte by ...
Page 107
... Kenilworth and Pembroke . The earliest form was a simple vertical slot , less than 2 ins wide at the outside . The length of the slot could vary from the norm of about 3 ft to as much as 12 ft ( e.g. Corfe , c . 1280 ) . Developments ...
... Kenilworth and Pembroke . The earliest form was a simple vertical slot , less than 2 ins wide at the outside . The length of the slot could vary from the norm of about 3 ft to as much as 12 ft ( e.g. Corfe , c . 1280 ) . Developments ...
Page 177
... Kenilworth , Tonbridge ( water ) . If neither high site nor water defences were available through nature , they were provided Tiltyard Surdeval ( Skelton ) artificially by building a mound or by damming streams ( Broughton , Caerphilly ...
... Kenilworth , Tonbridge ( water ) . If neither high site nor water defences were available through nature , they were provided Tiltyard Surdeval ( Skelton ) artificially by building a mound or by damming streams ( Broughton , Caerphilly ...
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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