The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 142
... POSTERN see also Sally - port , Watergate . Postern and sally - port are often used as though they were interchangeable , but perhaps they should be usefully distinguished . A postern is a small door or secondary gate for use when the ...
... POSTERN see also Sally - port , Watergate . Postern and sally - port are often used as though they were interchangeable , but perhaps they should be usefully distinguished . A postern is a small door or secondary gate for use when the ...
Page 143
... postern at Scarborough leads to the harbour . Some posterns seem very much an ' emergency exit ' as they open high ... postern in the Black Gate , Newcastle , seems to have been gained from the drawbridge pit ( c.f. Helmsley ) and there ...
... postern at Scarborough leads to the harbour . Some posterns seem very much an ' emergency exit ' as they open high ... postern in the Black Gate , Newcastle , seems to have been gained from the drawbridge pit ( c.f. Helmsley ) and there ...
Page 243
... postern to beach , interesting L - plan keep ( c . 1390 ? ) . Residential additions of C16 , 17. ( 95 , 157 ) . DUNOLLIE , Argyll 8532 C13 etc. C S ? Precipitous site overlooking sea . Remains of MacDougall castle include parts of ...
... postern to beach , interesting L - plan keep ( c . 1390 ? ) . Residential additions of C16 , 17. ( 95 , 157 ) . DUNOLLIE , Argyll 8532 C13 etc. C S ? Precipitous site overlooking sea . Remains of MacDougall castle include parts of ...
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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