The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... DITCH An often neglected aspect of fortification . Elaborate ones were designed by engineers and dug by ' fossores ' . They were usually revetted with turf and sometimes stone or timber . They could be as much as 60 ft across and vary ...
... DITCH An often neglected aspect of fortification . Elaborate ones were designed by engineers and dug by ' fossores ' . They were usually revetted with turf and sometimes stone or timber . They could be as much as 60 ft across and vary ...
Page 50
... ditch would make them practically unclimbable without assistance . £ 5.16.8 . was disbursed for ' mending ditches ' at Aberystwyth c . 1288 . DOMESTIC BUILDINGS see also Chapel , Kitchen etc. Buildings outside the keep were of various ...
... ditch would make them practically unclimbable without assistance . £ 5.16.8 . was disbursed for ' mending ditches ' at Aberystwyth c . 1288 . DOMESTIC BUILDINGS see also Chapel , Kitchen etc. Buildings outside the keep were of various ...
Page 125
... ditch and a further area defended by another ditch and palisade . There were many variations on this theme . Renn distinguished five features of mottes which can be ... DITCH DITCH The largest Motte - and - Bailey , Old Sarum THE. 125.
... ditch and a further area defended by another ditch and palisade . There were many variations on this theme . Renn distinguished five features of mottes which can be ... DITCH DITCH The largest Motte - and - Bailey , Old Sarum THE. 125.
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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 Corfe crenellated crossbow defence ditch domestic buildings Dover Durham earthworks Edward enclosure England entrance examples fire 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 Scarborough Scottish shell-keep siege engines sometimes square stair stone storeys Substantial remains survives timber tower tower-house town walls Trebuchet turrets usually vaulted wall-towers wall-walk Warkworth Warwick wooden Yorkshire