The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 137
... Scottish border . They were built from C12 to C17 ( and after ) and , without other evidence are often difficult to ... Scottish ones C16-17 . ' Pele ' is cognate with ' pale ' and means ' enclosure ' and the tower usually had an ...
... Scottish border . They were built from C12 to C17 ( and after ) and , without other evidence are often difficult to ... Scottish ones C16-17 . ' Pele ' is cognate with ' pale ' and means ' enclosure ' and the tower usually had an ...
Page 157
... SCOTTISH ARCHITECTURAL TERMS Check : rebate for door , window etc. Entresol : intermediate storey between two principal floors ( mezzanine ) Garner , Girnal House : granary Ingo : recess c.f. Inglenook Pend : vaulted passage Raggle ...
... SCOTTISH ARCHITECTURAL TERMS Check : rebate for door , window etc. Entresol : intermediate storey between two principal floors ( mezzanine ) Garner , Girnal House : granary Ingo : recess c.f. Inglenook Pend : vaulted passage Raggle ...
Page 158
Frank Bottomley. Scottish Keeps tribal feuds and the nature of the Reformation was more violent than in England . Consequently every laird's house was necessarily a stronghold and all are or were equipped for arquebus defence . SCOTTISH ...
Frank Bottomley. Scottish Keeps tribal feuds and the nature of the Reformation was more violent than in England . Consequently every laird's house was necessarily a stronghold and all are or were equipped for arquebus defence . SCOTTISH ...
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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