The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 144
... prison and tower led to the change in the meaning of Prisoner attempting Escape dungeon , though few towers ( except Scottish ones ) were initially equipped with a prison . Exceptionally , London Tower had an unpleasant chamber called ...
... prison and tower led to the change in the meaning of Prisoner attempting Escape dungeon , though few towers ( except Scottish ones ) were initially equipped with a prison . Exceptionally , London Tower had an unpleasant chamber called ...
Page 145
... prison ( e.g. Arundel , Cockermouth ) . The prisons in the gatehouse at Alnwick have oubliettes below them and there was a similar arrangement at Cockermouth . PRISONERS ' CARVINGS Prisons contain many inscriptions ( mostly from C17 ...
... prison ( e.g. Arundel , Cockermouth ) . The prisons in the gatehouse at Alnwick have oubliettes below them and there was a similar arrangement at Cockermouth . PRISONERS ' CARVINGS Prisons contain many inscriptions ( mostly from C17 ...
Page 244
... prison ) ; tower ( with prison and massive wall ) ( C14 ) ; bakehouse and chapel ( C15 ) , postern , well . ( 53 ) . HALKIRK , Caithness 1359 C14 C- O In vicinity are ruins of Braal castle , the site of the burning of the bishop of ...
... prison ) ; tower ( with prison and massive wall ) ( C14 ) ; bakehouse and chapel ( C15 ) , postern , well . ( 53 ) . HALKIRK , Caithness 1359 C14 C- O In vicinity are ruins of Braal castle , the site of the burning of the bishop 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