The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 68
... Warkworth ( acquired by the Percys in 1309 ) was made into a great tower - house ( c.f. Raby ) . Middleham was much altered in the C14 and Knaresborough keep is entirely of this period . The great towers ( Guy's and Caesar's ) at ...
... Warkworth ( acquired by the Percys in 1309 ) was made into a great tower - house ( c.f. Raby ) . Middleham was much altered in the C14 and Knaresborough keep is entirely of this period . The great towers ( Guy's and Caesar's ) at ...
Page 108
... Warkworth ) . This development allows a greater angle of declination and seriously limits the area of ' dead ground ' at the base of the wall . M Loops Elongated , Warkworth L - PLAN Development of tower - house whereby a wing was added ...
... Warkworth ) . This development allows a greater angle of declination and seriously limits the area of ' dead ground ' at the base of the wall . M Loops Elongated , Warkworth L - PLAN Development of tower - house whereby a wing was added ...
Page 131
... - hole . Small circular opening occurring singly and independently or as part of loop ( q.v. ) . Examples in wall - tower at Warkworth . Oillet Onager ONAGER see also Artillery , Mangon . A ballistic. 131 Arthur arrives at Caerleon ...
... - hole . Small circular opening occurring singly and independently or as part of loop ( q.v. ) . Examples in wall - tower at Warkworth . Oillet Onager ONAGER see also Artillery , Mangon . A ballistic. 131 Arthur arrives at Caerleon ...
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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