The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 77
... four feet long and five to six ins wide , mounted on an iron rod which could be driven into ground and ending in a swivel which allowed elevation to be varied . The most common guns towards the end of the castle period were probably the ...
... four feet long and five to six ins wide , mounted on an iron rod which could be driven into ground and ending in a swivel which allowed elevation to be varied . The most common guns towards the end of the castle period were probably the ...
Page 162
... four assaults . In the first , the barbican was captured where four or five of the outer guard were killed . In the second , the outer bailey was taken where there were more casualties and in this place our men captured horses and their ...
... four assaults . In the first , the barbican was captured where four or five of the outer guard were killed . In the second , the outer bailey was taken where there were more casualties and in this place our men captured horses and their ...
Page 245
... four storeys . ( 1 ) . KINTORE , Aberdeenshire 7916 C14 C + O ? Hall forest has the precarious ruin of a castle resembling Drum . Remains of a four - storeyed rectangular keep , two floors vaulted . ( 1 ) . KIRKCALDY , Fife 2791 c ...
... four storeys . ( 1 ) . KINTORE , Aberdeenshire 7916 C14 C + O ? Hall forest has the precarious ruin of a castle resembling Drum . Remains of a four - storeyed rectangular keep , two floors vaulted . ( 1 ) . KIRKCALDY , Fife 2791 c ...
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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