The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... crossbow . From the C12 to the end of C15 the crossbow was the favoured weapon except among the English . ( The Genoese were the most expert crossbow - men . ) The crossbow seems to have had more penetrating power but no greater range ...
... crossbow . From the C12 to the end of C15 the crossbow was the favoured weapon except among the English . ( The Genoese were the most expert crossbow - men . ) The crossbow seems to have had more penetrating power but no greater range ...
Page 41
... CROSSBOW Was developed from the larger mounted ' ballista ' and in its smaller form came in a variety of sizes and with various modifications . ( Some seem to have been ... Crossbow - man Crossbow - men cranquin or lever ) . Many of. 41.
... CROSSBOW Was developed from the larger mounted ' ballista ' and in its smaller form came in a variety of sizes and with various modifications . ( Some seem to have been ... Crossbow - man Crossbow - men cranquin or lever ) . Many of. 41.
Page 42
... crossbow could draw over half a ton . Crossbow strings were made of yarn and greased with tallow . The East Tower at Warkworth has a huge loop in each of its five outer faces designed for the operation of a crossbow 16 ft long . ' These ...
... crossbow could draw over half a ton . Crossbow strings were made of yarn and greased with tallow . The East Tower at Warkworth has a huge loop in each of its five outer faces designed for the operation of a crossbow 16 ft long . ' These ...
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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