The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... RIDING Castles are an important part of the mediaeval monuments of this Riding with important and representative examples from C11 to C15 . Richmond has one of the earliest stone halls in the country and a mighty tower ( as have ...
... RIDING Castles are an important part of the mediaeval monuments of this Riding with important and representative examples from C11 to C15 . Richmond has one of the earliest stone halls in the country and a mighty tower ( as have ...
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... Riding 5098 c . 1180 B DE Single bailey on high natural mound , scarped and ditched . High curtain with bastions . Long narrow barbican ( much ruined ) . Almost intact circular keep ' one of finest surviving pieces of C12 secular ...
... Riding 5098 c . 1180 B DE Single bailey on high natural mound , scarped and ditched . High curtain with bastions . Long narrow barbican ( much ruined ) . Almost intact circular keep ' one of finest surviving pieces of C12 secular ...
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... Riding 4194 C12 ? E O Lozenge - shaped enclosure of c . 22 acres with good ditch . Central square ring - work ( 100 ft × 6 ft high ) which supported wooden tower . ( 200 ) . SINNINGTON , Yorkshire , North Riding 7485 C12 D + H Barn , N ...
... Riding 4194 C12 ? E O Lozenge - shaped enclosure of c . 22 acres with good ditch . Central square ring - work ( 100 ft × 6 ft high ) which supported wooden tower . ( 200 ) . SINNINGTON , Yorkshire , North Riding 7485 C12 D + H Barn , N ...
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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