The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 95
... interesting castle and in the neighbourhood of Inverbervie lie the Tower of Benholm and Allardyce castle . KINROSSHIRE Castle on the island in Loch Leven . KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE There are remains in the county town , while near Palnackie ...
... interesting castle and in the neighbourhood of Inverbervie lie the Tower of Benholm and Allardyce castle . KINROSSHIRE Castle on the island in Loch Leven . KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE There are remains in the county town , while near Palnackie ...
Page 123
... interesting castle but Brodie , Coxton and Elgin ( Lossiemouth ) rate a mention and there is an interesting motte at Forres . Coxton --- y MOTEHOUSE The castle nearly always contained a court - house for the administration of local ...
... interesting castle but Brodie , Coxton and Elgin ( Lossiemouth ) rate a mention and there is an interesting motte at Forres . Coxton --- y MOTEHOUSE The castle nearly always contained a court - house for the administration of local ...
Page 221
... Interesting tower - house of unusual plan . Square angle - towers are set close together to provide single room on each of four floors . Forebuilding added to guard entry . Lavish provision of privies . Large windows and battlements not ...
... Interesting tower - house of unusual plan . Square angle - towers are set close together to provide single room on each of four floors . Forebuilding added to guard entry . Lavish provision of privies . Large windows and battlements not ...
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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