The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ' or more commonly ' wild fire ' in the Middle Ages seems to have been a mixture of sulphur , pitch , charcoal and tallow to which saltpetre , turpentine and crude antimony may have been added . Its properties seem to have been ...
... fire ' or more commonly ' wild fire ' in the Middle Ages seems to have been a mixture of sulphur , pitch , charcoal and tallow to which saltpetre , turpentine and crude antimony may have been added . Its properties seem to have been ...
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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