The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 85
... important ) and has little to offer the castle - explorer . There are the poorly preserved remains of the important castle at Berkhamsted , earthworks of the episcopal castle at Bishops Stortford and the more impressive earthworks at ...
... important ) and has little to offer the castle - explorer . There are the poorly preserved remains of the important castle at Berkhamsted , earthworks of the episcopal castle at Bishops Stortford and the more impressive earthworks at ...
Page 155
... important commodity which had to be carefully looked after . ' Ready - use ' salt kept in salt - box in chimney recess ( survivals in Scottish tower - houses ) . Later it would have , in great households , a worthy table - container ...
... important commodity which had to be carefully looked after . ' Ready - use ' salt kept in salt - box in chimney recess ( survivals in Scottish tower - houses ) . Later it would have , in great households , a worthy table - container ...
Page 200
... important part of the mediaeval monuments of this Riding with important and representative examples from C11 to C15 . Richmond has one of the earliest stone halls in the country and a mighty tower ( as have Middleham and Scarborough ) ...
... important part of the mediaeval monuments of this Riding with important and representative examples from C11 to C15 . Richmond has one of the earliest stone halls in the country and a mighty tower ( as have Middleham and Scarborough ) ...
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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