The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... effective against salient angles ( hence development of round or polygonal towers ) . Flanking towers , hourds and machicolation were intended to make borers visible and vulnerable . BOURG see also Bastide . Bombard Bore Bow An early ...
... effective against salient angles ( hence development of round or polygonal towers ) . Flanking towers , hourds and machicolation were intended to make borers visible and vulnerable . BOURG see also Bastide . Bombard Bore Bow An early ...
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... effective bombards ( Mons Meg at Edinburgh is c . 1460 ) . These terrifying pieces were given personal names and with ' Newcastle ' and ' London ' , Warwick the Kingmaker took Bamburgh castle ( hitherto considered impregnable ) in 1464 ...
... effective bombards ( Mons Meg at Edinburgh is c . 1460 ) . These terrifying pieces were given personal names and with ' Newcastle ' and ' London ' , Warwick the Kingmaker took Bamburgh castle ( hitherto considered impregnable ) in 1464 ...
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... effective range of about 1,000 yards . GUN - PORTS The artillery or hand - gun equivalent of the older arrow - loops . Some gun - ports were simply modifications of arrow - loops ( e.g. Bodiam , Canterbury Westgate ) . The earliest ...
... effective range of about 1,000 yards . GUN - PORTS The artillery or hand - gun equivalent of the older arrow - loops . Some gun - ports were simply modifications of arrow - loops ( e.g. Bodiam , Canterbury Westgate ) . The earliest ...
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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