The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 92
... communication to the field . A modern word , the earlier popular word was ' donjon ' while the contemporary word seems to have been ' tower ' . The contemporary word for shell - keep ( q.v. ) was ' motte ' . The mediaeval use of ' tower ...
... communication to the field . A modern word , the earlier popular word was ' donjon ' while the contemporary word seems to have been ' tower ' . The contemporary word for shell - keep ( q.v. ) was ' motte ' . The mediaeval use of ' tower ...
Page 94
... communication bottleneck . KEEP , INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS Because of the superimposed accommodation of tower - keeps , communication can never have been convenient . It was sometimes made less so for defensive reasons : a narrow spiral ...
... communication bottleneck . KEEP , INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS Because of the superimposed accommodation of tower - keeps , communication can never have been convenient . It was sometimes made less so for defensive reasons : a narrow spiral ...
Page 193
... communications which were difficult to cut even during a siege . Most seem designed to facilitate provisioning but they could admit reinforcements or provide a means of escape . They sometimes communicate with a private wharf . There is ...
... communications which were difficult to cut even during a siege . Most seem designed to facilitate provisioning but they could admit reinforcements or provide a means of escape . They sometimes communicate with a private wharf . There is ...
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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