The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 114
... complete buildings but palisades , hoardings , ladders , bridges and doors . Once the castle was built , timber continued to be consumed in vast quantities for fuel , carpentry , engines , repair and maintenance . Pickering extracted ...
... complete buildings but palisades , hoardings , ladders , bridges and doors . Once the castle was built , timber continued to be consumed in vast quantities for fuel , carpentry , engines , repair and maintenance . Pickering extracted ...
Page 211
... complete circuit of about two miles . N and E sides on Roman foundation but mainly late C13 with much subsequent restoration . Interesting spur - work ( Water Tower ) c.f. Southampton . ( 32 , 39 , 83 , 91 , 143 , 169 , 183 ) . Walls as ...
... complete circuit of about two miles . N and E sides on Roman foundation but mainly late C13 with much subsequent restoration . Interesting spur - work ( Water Tower ) c.f. Southampton . ( 32 , 39 , 83 , 91 , 143 , 169 , 183 ) . Walls as ...
Page 247
... complete apart from top storey . Interesting inscription . ( 91 , 160 ) . NAIRN , Nairnshire 8756 C15 C + O ? In neighbourhood is Rait , substantially complete ruin of tower - house , unusual in having a circular plan . ( c.f. ...
... complete apart from top storey . Interesting inscription . ( 91 , 160 ) . NAIRN , Nairnshire 8756 C15 C + O ? In neighbourhood is Rait , substantially complete ruin of tower - house , unusual in having a circular plan . ( c.f. ...
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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