The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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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 131
... Kenilworth ( 1266 ) , the artillery of the garrison destroyed two great belfries ( q.v. ) erected by the besiegers commanded by Henry III and the Lord Edward . According to a contemporary chronicler the battery and counter - battery ...
... Kenilworth ( 1266 ) , the artillery of the garrison destroyed two great belfries ( q.v. ) erected by the besiegers commanded by Henry III and the Lord Edward . According to a contemporary chronicler the battery and counter - battery ...
Page 193
... Kenilworth ) which have now been drained . In 1266 there was a water assault by night against Kenilworth using barges dragged overland from Chester . WATER - GATE Gave access to river or sea and thus to communications which were ...
... Kenilworth ) which have now been drained . In 1266 there was a water assault by night against Kenilworth using barges dragged overland from Chester . WATER - GATE Gave access to river or sea and thus to communications which were ...
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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