The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... ground level e.g. Bamburgh , Colchester . EPISCOPAL CASTLES Distribution . see also Because mediaeval bishops were also feudal lords and landowners they had the function and duties of that state . This included the lordship of castles ...
... ground level e.g. Bamburgh , Colchester . EPISCOPAL CASTLES Distribution . see also Because mediaeval bishops were also feudal lords and landowners they had the function and duties of that state . This included the lordship of castles ...
Page 107
... ground beneath walls . True bow - slits rarely appear before 1190 e.g. Avranches Tower , Dover ; flanking towers at Framlingham , fighting tops in keeps of Loop Bow Loops Kenilworth and Pembroke . The earliest form was a simple vertical ...
... ground beneath walls . True bow - slits rarely appear before 1190 e.g. Avranches Tower , Dover ; flanking towers at Framlingham , fighting tops in keeps of Loop Bow Loops Kenilworth and Pembroke . The earliest form was a simple vertical ...
Page 108
... ground ' at the base of the wall . M Loops Elongated , Warkworth L - PLAN Development of tower - house whereby a wing was added at right - angles to the original rectangular house . It sometimes provided a location for a convenient ...
... ground ' at the base of the wall . M Loops Elongated , Warkworth L - PLAN Development of tower - house whereby a wing was added at right - angles to the original rectangular house . It sometimes provided a location for a convenient ...
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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