The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 41
... probably crenellated . When wood was replaced by stone wall it was Crenels battlemented and provided with an allure from a comparatively early date . The form of crenellation is basically unchanged during C13 to C14 but its efficacy is ...
... probably crenellated . When wood was replaced by stone wall it was Crenels battlemented and provided with an allure from a comparatively early date . The form of crenellation is basically unchanged during C13 to C14 but its efficacy is ...
Page 78
... probably placed against the walls of bailey to leave its centre free for stores and military activity . There were early stone halls at Richmond ( probably the first in the country ) , Brough , Chepstow , Ludlow and Durham . Though the ...
... probably placed against the walls of bailey to leave its centre free for stores and military activity . There were early stone halls at Richmond ( probably the first in the country ) , Brough , Chepstow , Ludlow and Durham . Though the ...
Page 211
... probably represents bailey . b . Castle Hills , half mile SW with reduced motte but earthworks still reaching 60 ft at E. ( 200 ) . CAUS , Shropshire 3308 C12 DO Motte - and - bailey with complex earthworks . Fragments of shell - keep ...
... probably represents bailey . b . Castle Hills , half mile SW with reduced motte but earthworks still reaching 60 ft at E. ( 200 ) . CAUS , Shropshire 3308 C12 DO Motte - and - bailey with complex earthworks . Fragments of shell - keep ...
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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