The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 70
... Newcastle has a number ; one is a cul - de - sac but that is possibly an accident due to change in plan during building . Open galleries run round the upper level of unusually high halls e.g. in the keeps of Dover , Hedingham , Norwich ...
... Newcastle has a number ; one is a cul - de - sac but that is possibly an accident due to change in plan during building . Open galleries run round the upper level of unusually high halls e.g. in the keeps of Dover , Hedingham , Norwich ...
Page 143
... Newcastle , seems to have been gained from the drawbridge pit ( c.f. Helmsley ) and there is one at Carew from the basement of a wall - tower to the scarp of the ditch while the postern at Pickering had its own drawbridge ...
... Newcastle , seems to have been gained from the drawbridge pit ( c.f. Helmsley ) and there is one at Carew from the basement of a wall - tower to the scarp of the ditch while the postern at Pickering had its own drawbridge ...
Page 238
... NEWCASTLE ( Bridgend ) , Glamorganshire 9079 late C11 , early C12 C DE Remains of polygonal curtain and two square towers , all with plinths , and doorway . ( 74 ) . NEWCASTLE EMLYN , Carmarthenshire 3040 C13 ? D O Sparse masonry ...
... NEWCASTLE ( Bridgend ) , Glamorganshire 9079 late C11 , early C12 C DE Remains of polygonal curtain and two square towers , all with plinths , and doorway . ( 74 ) . NEWCASTLE EMLYN , Carmarthenshire 3040 C13 ? D O Sparse masonry ...
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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