The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 64
... FLANKING A curtain is said to be flanked when its line is broken at intervals by projections whose defenders can cover the face of the intervening wall . Projecting towers serve this purpose and improve observation of assaults on the ...
... FLANKING A curtain is said to be flanked when its line is broken at intervals by projections whose defenders can cover the face of the intervening wall . Projecting towers serve this purpose and improve observation of assaults on the ...
Page 190
... flanking ( q.v. ) It may be , as Renn suggests , that this positioning was designed to protect them from direct ... flanked the wall so that each pair covered the entire face of the intervening wall . ( b ) They commanded the ...
... flanking ( q.v. ) It may be , as Renn suggests , that this positioning was designed to protect them from direct ... flanked the wall so that each pair covered the entire face of the intervening wall . ( b ) They commanded the ...
Page 200
... flanking fire from Henry III's Elephant early guns , developed in the ' tower - houses ' of Scotland . The house - block , whether hall or tower , is provided with two corner towers at diametrically opposite angles . Thus each tower flanked ...
... flanking fire from Henry III's Elephant early guns , developed in the ' tower - houses ' of Scotland . The house - block , whether hall or tower , is provided with two corner towers at diametrically opposite angles . Thus each tower flanked ...
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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