The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 53
... mound or ring - work . It seems that the mound was preferred for a residential castle while a motte was more characteristic of a garrison fortress or siege - castle e.g. Topcliffe which was a siege base for the attack on Mowbray's ...
... mound or ring - work . It seems that the mound was preferred for a residential castle while a motte was more characteristic of a garrison fortress or siege - castle e.g. Topcliffe which was a siege base for the attack on Mowbray's ...
Page 124
... mound ' for the latter , a convenient distinction though the words are etymologically cognate . The raising of a ... Mound MOUND see also Motte . The typical feature of. Early Motte - and - Bailey ( Reconstruction ) Pele - Tower , Halton.
... mound ' for the latter , a convenient distinction though the words are etymologically cognate . The raising of a ... Mound MOUND see also Motte . The typical feature of. Early Motte - and - Bailey ( Reconstruction ) Pele - Tower , Halton.
Page 214
... mounds S of village . ( 75 , 135 ) . DEVIZES , Wiltshire 0061 C12 D - E H Oval mound on promontory with two baileys , each protected by double ditch . Outer one formed town enclosure and its shape is perceptible in street line . St ...
... mounds S of village . ( 75 , 135 ) . DEVIZES , Wiltshire 0061 C12 D - E H Oval mound on promontory with two baileys , each protected by double ditch . Outer one formed town enclosure and its shape is perceptible in street line . St ...
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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