The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 107
... loops are merely narrow windows and would be impractical as bow loops as they are the wrong shape and provide no convenient accommodation or stance for a hypothetical bowman . LOOPS , BOW Their purpose is to allow defenders to fire from ...
... loops are merely narrow windows and would be impractical as bow loops as they are the wrong shape and provide no convenient accommodation or stance for a hypothetical bowman . LOOPS , BOW Their purpose is to allow defenders to fire from ...
Page 108
... loop in the castle . LOOPS , ELONGATED Bow - slits whose lower half is prolonged below the level of the allure or fighting platform ( e.g. Caernarvon , Warkworth ) . This development allows a greater angle of declination and seriously ...
... loop in the castle . LOOPS , ELONGATED Bow - slits whose lower half is prolonged below the level of the allure or fighting platform ( e.g. Caernarvon , Warkworth ) . This development allows a greater angle of declination and seriously ...
Page 195
... loops . Loops generally were provided with no closure apart from a coarse curtain . The first floor tended to have narrow loops with a wide splay , but the second floor often possessed quite large windows in deep recesses fitted with ...
... loops . Loops generally were provided with no closure apart from a coarse curtain . The first floor tended to have narrow loops with a wide splay , but the second floor often possessed quite large windows in deep recesses fitted with ...
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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