The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 42
... Perhaps the most valuable members of the castle garrison . Because of its deadliness , the crossbow ( q.v. ) had been ( ineffectually ) condemned by the Lateran Council of 1139 as a weapon ' hateful to God ' . Crossbow - men appear ...
... Perhaps the most valuable members of the castle garrison . Because of its deadliness , the crossbow ( q.v. ) had been ( ineffectually ) condemned by the Lateran Council of 1139 as a weapon ' hateful to God ' . Crossbow - men appear ...
Page 69
... perhaps elaborately carved . This was called a ' table dormant ' ( i.e. permanent as against the trestle tables which served the rest of the hall ) . Facing down the hall would be high - backed narrow chairs , perhaps with heraldic ...
... perhaps elaborately carved . This was called a ' table dormant ' ( i.e. permanent as against the trestle tables which served the rest of the hall ) . Facing down the hall would be high - backed narrow chairs , perhaps with heraldic ...
Page 92
... perhaps represent a rare example of preference for intimidating appearance over the strongest defence . ( If they face the point of expected artillery assault , perhaps not . ) KEEP see also Hall - keep . The strong - point and ' last ...
... perhaps represent a rare example of preference for intimidating appearance over the strongest defence . ( If they face the point of expected artillery assault , perhaps not . ) KEEP see also Hall - keep . The strong - point and ' last ...
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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