The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 65
... floor surface was usually covered with rushes and sweet herbs , renewed monthly . FLOOR ARRANGEMENT ( Keeps ) . Loftier keeps usually have a basement with three upper floors ( e.g. Hedingham , Portchester , Rochester , Scarborough ) ...
... floor surface was usually covered with rushes and sweet herbs , renewed monthly . FLOOR ARRANGEMENT ( Keeps ) . Loftier keeps usually have a basement with three upper floors ( e.g. Hedingham , Portchester , Rochester , Scarborough ) ...
Page 138
... floors which provided living quarters and defensive positions . The first floor was usually occupied by the hall or main living room with the sleeping chamber on the floor above . Both floors were usually provided with privies and their ...
... floors which provided living quarters and defensive positions . The first floor was usually occupied by the hall or main living room with the sleeping chamber on the floor above . Both floors were usually provided with privies and their ...
Page 171
... floor was usually by trap - door and ladder but occasionally by a vice which began in chamber and not on first floor in order to safeguard provisions and stores from unauthorised access . The upper floors were attained past a number of ...
... floor was usually by trap - door and ladder but occasionally by a vice which began in chamber and not on first floor in order to safeguard provisions and stores from unauthorised access . The upper floors were attained past a number of ...
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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