The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 11
... mural towers . Harlech is very interesting because , although the vices in the angle - towers communicate with the rampart walk , there is a Wall - walk separate stair for those responsible for guarding the intermediate section entered ...
... mural towers . Harlech is very interesting because , although the vices in the angle - towers communicate with the rampart walk , there is a Wall - walk separate stair for those responsible for guarding the intermediate section entered ...
Page 127
... mural paintings at Longthorpe Tower . MURAL PASSAGES Besides the normal staircases , corridors and latrines , large square keeps sometimes have mural passages designed as fighting galleries . These also occur in the curtain of Edwardian ...
... mural paintings at Longthorpe Tower . MURAL PASSAGES Besides the normal staircases , corridors and latrines , large square keeps sometimes have mural passages designed as fighting galleries . These also occur in the curtain of Edwardian ...
Page 190
... Mural towers on outer curtain would overtop wall by 10 ft and on inner curtain by 15 ft . ( See also Curtain , Mantelet , Town Walls . ) WALL GALLERIES Fighting platforms in the thickness of the walls . They occur in some great towers ...
... Mural towers on outer curtain would overtop wall by 10 ft and on inner curtain by 15 ft . ( See also Curtain , Mantelet , Town Walls . ) WALL GALLERIES Fighting platforms in the thickness of the walls . They occur in some great towers ...
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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