The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 19
... palisade or stockade to provide perimeter defence . Usually made from squared timber ( oak ) , like old - fashioned railway sleepers , planted deep and closely together on top of mound or rampart . Probably secured by horizontal beams ...
... palisade or stockade to provide perimeter defence . Usually made from squared timber ( oak ) , like old - fashioned railway sleepers , planted deep and closely together on top of mound or rampart . Probably secured by horizontal beams ...
Page 58
... palisade or an archway with doors in a stone wall ( e.g. Eynsford , Richmond . The latter subsequently had a keep built over the original entrance to form an awesome gatehouse ) . Later , the opening was protected by a small gatehouse ...
... palisade or an archway with doors in a stone wall ( e.g. Eynsford , Richmond . The latter subsequently had a keep built over the original entrance to form an awesome gatehouse ) . Later , the opening was protected by a small gatehouse ...
Page 125
... palisade and the palisades erected on the earth rampart , made from the ditch spoil , crossed the motte ditch and joined the summit palisade after climbing the sides of the motte . Later the timber tower and the wooden palisades were ...
... palisade and the palisades erected on the earth rampart , made from the ditch spoil , crossed the motte ditch and joined the summit palisade after climbing the sides of the motte . Later the timber tower and the wooden palisades were ...
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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