The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... materials often over great distances and in some cases involving co - ordination of road , river and sea transport ( e.g. Edwardian castles in Wales ) ; assessment of money dues ; collection of rents and taxes ; keeping accounts ...
... materials often over great distances and in some cases involving co - ordination of road , river and sea transport ( e.g. Edwardian castles in Wales ) ; assessment of money dues ; collection of rents and taxes ; keeping accounts ...
Page 113
... MATERIALS see also Ashlar , Rubble . The first castles were constructed of earthen banks and timber for the palisades and buildings Materials Mason's Mark , London Master Mason they enclosed . The most vulnerable timber was later ...
... MATERIALS see also Ashlar , Rubble . The first castles were constructed of earthen banks and timber for the palisades and buildings Materials Mason's Mark , London Master Mason they enclosed . The most vulnerable timber was later ...
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... Materials occurring in the accounts of Flint ( which took nine years to build and cost £ 7,000 ) include 87,000 bags of lime at 4d a bag , lead for roofing , iron for hinges and locks , and parchment for writing the accounts . In a ...
... Materials occurring in the accounts of Flint ( which took nine years to build and cost £ 7,000 ) include 87,000 bags of lime at 4d a bag , lead for roofing , iron for hinges and locks , and parchment for writing the accounts . In a ...
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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