The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... cost 6s 3d in mason's wages ( though one cost 7s 3d ) . Revetting 200 ft of castle ditch ( 1279 ) cost £ 29 3s Od in wages . The Mote - hall cost £ 26.13.4 ( 1283 ) while the hall and chamber cost £ 51.1.8 in 1452 . Building Periods ...
... cost 6s 3d in mason's wages ( though one cost 7s 3d ) . Revetting 200 ft of castle ditch ( 1279 ) cost £ 29 3s Od in wages . The Mote - hall cost £ 26.13.4 ( 1283 ) while the hall and chamber cost £ 51.1.8 in 1452 . Building Periods ...
Page 39
... cost nearly £ 112 while the south - west cost nearly £ 117 ) . Turrets or ' garrites ' cost 12s a foot or £ 11.8.0 each ; fireplace in gatehouse 8s ; window 15s ; roofing the S.E. tower with wood £ 22 ; roofing gatehouse , N.W. and S.W. ...
... cost nearly £ 112 while the south - west cost nearly £ 117 ) . Turrets or ' garrites ' cost 12s a foot or £ 11.8.0 each ; fireplace in gatehouse 8s ; window 15s ; roofing the S.E. tower with wood £ 22 ; roofing gatehouse , N.W. and S.W. ...
Page 127
... cost between 7d and 6s per thousand ( including carriage ) according to their size etc. 125,000 were bought in 1286 for the works at Conway . 9,000 board nails for Harlech ( 1286 ) cost 13s 6d i.e. 1s 6d a thousand . 40,000 nails for laths ...
... cost between 7d and 6s per thousand ( including carriage ) according to their size etc. 125,000 were bought in 1286 for the works at Conway . 9,000 board nails for Harlech ( 1286 ) cost 13s 6d i.e. 1s 6d a thousand . 40,000 nails for laths ...
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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