The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 190
... curtain by 15 ft . ( See also Curtain , Mantelet , Town Walls . ) WALL GALLERIES Fighting platforms in the thickness of the walls . They occur in some great towers but are rare in English curtains . Good examples at Caernarvon and ...
... curtain by 15 ft . ( See also Curtain , Mantelet , Town Walls . ) WALL GALLERIES Fighting platforms in the thickness of the walls . They occur in some great towers but are rare in English curtains . Good examples at Caernarvon and ...
Page 223
... curtain and tower . ( 80 ) . METTINGHAM , Suffolk 3689 lc . 1342 C- H ? Site occupied by mediaeval college before end C14 and by house in C19 . Remains of gatehouse , fragments of barbican , traces of curtain . ( 52 , 100 , 173 ) ...
... curtain and tower . ( 80 ) . METTINGHAM , Suffolk 3689 lc . 1342 C- H ? Site occupied by mediaeval college before end C14 and by house in C19 . Remains of gatehouse , fragments of barbican , traces of curtain . ( 52 , 100 , 173 ) ...
Page 238
... curtain , tower and gatehouse . ( 25 ) . LLANSTEPHAN , Carmarthenshire 3511 before 1146 B- DE Remains of de Chamville castle include earthworks , substantial part of inner curtain ( C12 ) , gate , outer curtain with flanking towers ...
... curtain , tower and gatehouse . ( 25 ) . LLANSTEPHAN , Carmarthenshire 3511 before 1146 B- DE Remains of de Chamville castle include earthworks , substantial part of inner curtain ( C12 ) , gate , outer curtain with flanking towers ...
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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