The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 72
Page 124
... motte : the truncated cone of comparatively small surface area at its levelled summit and the much more extensive but less eminent erection , sometimes called a ring - work . Some writers use the word ' motte ' for the former and ...
... motte : the truncated cone of comparatively small surface area at its levelled summit and the much more extensive but less eminent erection , sometimes called a ring - work . Some writers use the word ' motte ' for the former and ...
Page 125
... motte ( 1080 ) has suffered from this , as has the C14 keep at Duffus built on the earlier Norman motte . MOTTE - AND - BAILEY The very early but very effective type of Norman castle ... MOTTE The largest Motte - and - Bailey , Old Sarum.
... motte ( 1080 ) has suffered from this , as has the C14 keep at Duffus built on the earlier Norman motte . MOTTE - AND - BAILEY The very early but very effective type of Norman castle ... MOTTE The largest Motte - and - Bailey , Old Sarum.
Page 211
... motte - and - baileys ; a . a reduced motte with deep ditch on W , N of church whose yard probably represents bailey . b . Castle Hills , half mile SW with reduced motte but earthworks still reaching 60 ft at E. ( 200 ) . CAUS ...
... motte - and - baileys ; a . a reduced motte with deep ditch on W , N of church whose yard probably represents bailey . b . Castle Hills , half mile SW with reduced motte but earthworks still reaching 60 ft at E. ( 200 ) . CAUS ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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