The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 58
... ground level e.g. Bamburgh , Colchester . EPISCOPAL CASTLES see also Distribution . 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 see also Distribution . 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 . Loop Bow Loops 1 True bow - slits rarely appear before 1190 e.g. Avranches Tower , Dover ; flanking towers at Framlingham , fighting tops in keeps of Kenilworth and Pembroke . The earliest form was a simple ...
... ground beneath walls . Loop Bow Loops 1 True bow - slits rarely appear before 1190 e.g. Avranches Tower , Dover ; flanking towers at Framlingham , fighting tops in keeps of Kenilworth and Pembroke . The earliest form was a simple ...
Page 108
... ground ' at the base of the wall . 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 newel ...
... ground ' at the base of the wall . 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 newel ...
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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