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Domestic Buildings assaulting force was to drain or bridge a wet ditch or to fill a dry one sufficiently substantially to allow the passage of siege - engines . Infilling was usually earth or stone , logs , brushwood or faggots .
Domestic Buildings assaulting force was to drain or bridge a wet ditch or to fill a dry one sufficiently substantially to allow the passage of siege - engines . Infilling was usually earth or stone , logs , brushwood or faggots .
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Much altered but parts of curtain survive and remains of domestic buildings (C15-16) including much mutilated great hall. Palace (mainly C16) of little military significance. (133, 171, 173, 185). STRANRAER, Wigtownshire 0660 C16 C P ...
Much altered but parts of curtain survive and remains of domestic buildings (C15-16) including much mutilated great hall. Palace (mainly C16) of little military significance. (133, 171, 173, 185). STRANRAER, Wigtownshire 0660 C16 C P ...
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Great curtain, domestic buildings (c. 1600). (91). TOLQUHON, Aberdeenshire 8631 c. 1420, late C16 B- DE Unusual rectangular block, enclosing a courtyard (1584—9) but incorporating earlier tower with added square and round salient towers ...
Great curtain, domestic buildings (c. 1600). (91). TOLQUHON, Aberdeenshire 8631 c. 1420, late C16 B- DE Unusual rectangular block, enclosing a courtyard (1584—9) but incorporating earlier tower with added square and round salient towers ...
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