The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... BARMKIN Arms : De Mauley North of England term for a kind of barbican ( with which it might be cognate ) , consisting of a large walled outer ward on the entrance side of the enclosure containing hall . Often consists of a simple walled ...
... BARMKIN Arms : De Mauley North of England term for a kind of barbican ( with which it might be cognate ) , consisting of a large walled outer ward on the entrance side of the enclosure containing hall . Often consists of a simple walled ...
Page 241
... barmkin ( C15 ) , elaborated and extended later . Pit - prison . Third floor barrel - vaulted , interesting grotesques . ( 34 ) . CARDONESS , Kirkcudbrightshire 5653 C15 C DE Substantial remains of rectangular tower - house ( c . 1450 ) ...
... barmkin ( C15 ) , elaborated and extended later . Pit - prison . Third floor barrel - vaulted , interesting grotesques . ( 34 ) . CARDONESS , Kirkcudbrightshire 5653 C15 C DE Substantial remains of rectangular tower - house ( c . 1450 ) ...
Page 247
... barmkin . The arrangement of the tower - house is typical but highly untypical in that is built on a circular plan . Vaulted basement and three superior storeys , quaint cap - house leading to parapet . Remains of enclosing walls and ...
... barmkin . The arrangement of the tower - house is typical but highly untypical in that is built on a circular plan . Vaulted basement and three superior storeys , quaint cap - house leading to parapet . Remains of enclosing walls and ...
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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