The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 64
... FLANKING Flail 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 ...
... FLANKING Flail 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 ...
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 rampart ...
... 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 rampart ...
Page 200
... flanking fire from 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 two sides of the ...
... flanking fire from 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 two sides of the ...
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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