The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... bridge itself is fortified with a gatehouse equipped with machicolations and a portcullis . At Warkworth , besides protection from the castle itself , there is a plain rectangular gatehouse for the bridge . BUCKINGHAMSHIRE The county is ...
... bridge itself is fortified with a gatehouse equipped with machicolations and a portcullis . At Warkworth , besides protection from the castle itself , there is a plain rectangular gatehouse for the bridge . BUCKINGHAMSHIRE The county is ...
Page 51
... Bridge . A movable wooden bridge originally withdrawn horizontally to hinder access to defences . Later , the outer end was lifted by attached ropes or chains pulled through slots in the wall of the upper room in Dovecote gatehouse ...
... Bridge . A movable wooden bridge originally withdrawn horizontally to hinder access to defences . Later , the outer end was lifted by attached ropes or chains pulled through slots in the wall of the upper room in Dovecote gatehouse ...
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... BRIDGE A wooden bridge pivoted on a central axle or trunnion ( like a see - saw ) . The end nearer the gateway was counterpoised by weights which allowed it to sink ... Bridge turning bridges . The device was somewhat clumsy and tended. 186.
... BRIDGE A wooden bridge pivoted on a central axle or trunnion ( like a see - saw ) . The end nearer the gateway was counterpoised by weights which allowed it to sink ... Bridge turning bridges . The device was somewhat clumsy and tended. 186.
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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