The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... portcullis or at least its hearse . 3. Second floor - contained guard house , weapon - stores and engines . Developments of defence included mutiplication of portcullises and doors , murder - holes , machicolations and barbican . From ...
... portcullis or at least its hearse . 3. Second floor - contained guard house , weapon - stores and engines . Developments of defence included mutiplication of portcullises and doors , murder - holes , machicolations and barbican . From ...
Page 141
... PORTCULLIS ( Herse ) . A gate which drops vertically through slots . It is normally of oak open - work , terminating in spikes , plated and shod with iron . Its massive weight is quickly released by knocking away a wedge or ratchet in ...
... PORTCULLIS ( Herse ) . A gate which drops vertically through slots . It is normally of oak open - work , terminating in spikes , plated and shod with iron . Its massive weight is quickly released by knocking away a wedge or ratchet in ...
Page 142
... portcullis are still to be seen in the door - jambs of many gateways and doors ( Bolton had a portcullis to every external door ) , but portcullises themselves are a very rare survival and noteworthy . The portcullis was sometimes ...
... portcullis are still to be seen in the door - jambs of many gateways and doors ( Bolton had a portcullis to every external door ) , but portcullises themselves are a very rare survival and noteworthy . The portcullis was sometimes ...
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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