The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 142
... London Tower , York bars . Many gatehouses show evidence of possessing more than one portcullis e.g. each gateway at Beaumaris was designed to have three portcullises and the keep - gatehouse at St Briavel's has three main portcullises ...
... London Tower , York bars . Many gatehouses show evidence of possessing more than one portcullis e.g. each gateway at Beaumaris was designed to have three portcullises and the keep - gatehouse at St Briavel's has three main portcullises ...
Page 144
... London Tower received many who never passed out of its gates , including the Duke of Clarence and the children of Edward V among others less distinguished . The mighty stronghold of Pontefract saw the imprisonment and death of Thomas of ...
... London Tower received many who never passed out of its gates , including the Duke of Clarence and the children of Edward V among others less distinguished . The mighty stronghold of Pontefract saw the imprisonment and death of Thomas of ...
Page 151
... London Tower at cost of £ 3,000 , introduction of round towers e.g. Bell Tower at London , keep at Pembroke . RING - WORK A roughly circular earthwork of bank and ditch . ROBBER BARONS see also Anarchy . There was a spurt of baronial ...
... London Tower at cost of £ 3,000 , introduction of round towers e.g. Bell Tower at London , keep at Pembroke . RING - WORK A roughly circular earthwork of bank and ditch . ROBBER BARONS see also Anarchy . There was a spurt of baronial ...
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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