The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 62
... fire ( q.v. ) , fire - arrows tipped with tow , fire - brands , burning pitch , boiling fat , fire wagons holding wood or hay made more combustible with animal fat . ( An early account speaks of fire Fighting Platform Finials ' fed with ...
... fire ( q.v. ) , fire - arrows tipped with tow , fire - brands , burning pitch , boiling fat , fire wagons holding wood or hay made more combustible with animal fat . ( An early account speaks of fire Fighting Platform Finials ' fed with ...
Page 63
Frank Bottomley. Fireplaces Little could be done to protect human flesh against fire weapon . ' With fire and sword ' represents the essence of mediaeval assault as it also depicts the immemorial practice of war . FIRE - ARMS The ...
Frank Bottomley. Fireplaces Little could be done to protect human flesh against fire weapon . ' With fire and sword ' represents the essence of mediaeval assault as it also depicts the immemorial practice of war . FIRE - ARMS The ...
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... fire and a deep recess for drawing . A crossbow needs a broader recess , but less tall and deep , since it is fired horizontally . The splayed jambs of a bowloop permitted lateral as well as frontal fire and the sill was often deflected ...
... fire and a deep recess for drawing . A crossbow needs a broader recess , but less tall and deep , since it is fired horizontally . The splayed jambs of a bowloop permitted lateral as well as frontal fire and the sill was often deflected ...
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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