The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... engines ( q.v. ) . They also made furniture , panelling for rooms and scaffolding for building operations . One of Edward I's chief carpenters was Thomas of Haughton who designed woodwork of Queen Eleanor's tomb , planned siege engines ...
... engines ( q.v. ) . They also made furniture , panelling for rooms and scaffolding for building operations . One of Edward I's chief carpenters was Thomas of Haughton who designed woodwork of Queen Eleanor's tomb , planned siege engines ...
Page 56
... ENGINES Large mechanical constructions , including cranes , and the normal word for mediaeval artillery . We think readily of ' siege - engines ' but it must be remembered that castles themselves were often equipped with ' heavy ...
... ENGINES Large mechanical constructions , including cranes , and the normal word for mediaeval artillery . We think readily of ' siege - engines ' but it must be remembered that castles themselves were often equipped with ' heavy ...
Page 164
... engines to be carted from Lincoln and Northampton across Oxfordshire while others were built on the spot by carpenters who had ridden post - haste by day and night from the royal stronghold at Windsor . Rope and ... Engine Siege Engines. 164.
... engines to be carted from Lincoln and Northampton across Oxfordshire while others were built on the spot by carpenters who had ridden post - haste by day and night from the royal stronghold at Windsor . Rope and ... Engine Siege Engines. 164.
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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