The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 11
... called an artiller who seems to have been responsible for the construction , maintenance and operation of the large ... called ' serches ' ( used for wells , newel stairs etc. ) . Other specialist cuts were called ' roydes ' and ...
... called an artiller who seems to have been responsible for the construction , maintenance and operation of the large ... called ' serches ' ( used for wells , newel stairs etc. ) . Other specialist cuts were called ' roydes ' and ...
Page 107
... called arrow - loops are merely narrow windows and would be impractical as bow loops as they are the wrong shape and provide no convenient accommodation or stance for a hypothetical bowman . LOOPS , BOW Their purpose is to allow ...
... called arrow - loops are merely narrow windows and would be impractical as bow loops as they are the wrong shape and provide no convenient accommodation or stance for a hypothetical bowman . LOOPS , BOW Their purpose is to allow ...
Page 162
... called a ' cat ' under whose protection underground diggers , called miners , ... undermined the walls of the tower and of the castle . Assault on Gate Now the castle was taken through four assaults . In the first , the barbican was ...
... called a ' cat ' under whose protection underground diggers , called miners , ... undermined the walls of the tower and of the castle . Assault on Gate Now the castle was taken through four assaults . In the first , the barbican was ...
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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