The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... Moats were fed by diverted springs or streams . Unlike the V - shaped dry ditch , a moat is not accompanied by a bank , the excavated earth was used to make dams which served either to divert water to the moat or keep it in its desired ...
... Moats were fed by diverted springs or streams . Unlike the V - shaped dry ditch , a moat is not accompanied by a bank , the excavated earth was used to make dams which served either to divert water to the moat or keep it in its desired ...
Page 210
... moat . Outer possibly village enclosure . Keep may be earliest round tower in England . Also remains of gatehouse ( c . 1200 ) and chapel ( C12 ) incorporated in house . ( 128 ) . BUCKINGHAM , Buckinghamshire 6933 before 1216 No remains ...
... moat . Outer possibly village enclosure . Keep may be earliest round tower in England . Also remains of gatehouse ( c . 1200 ) and chapel ( C12 ) incorporated in house . ( 128 ) . BUCKINGHAM , Buckinghamshire 6933 before 1216 No remains ...
Page 220
... moat and curtain ; other at Killerby with damaged motte , impressive ditch and bailey . ( 200 ) . KIRKOSWALD , Cumberland 5541 1201 D + O Motte with rectangular bailey . Remains of moat , towers and fragments of gatehouse . ( 44 , 92 ) ...
... moat and curtain ; other at Killerby with damaged motte , impressive ditch and bailey . ( 200 ) . KIRKOSWALD , Cumberland 5541 1201 D + O Motte with rectangular bailey . Remains of moat , towers and fragments of gatehouse . ( 44 , 92 ) ...
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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