The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... protected windows on the floor e.g. Akeld , Bellister , Doddington , Neworth , Northd . BATH Normally taken in a ... protect his feet from the cold . BATTER OR PLINTH see also Spur . The angled footing of a wall or tower designed to ...
... protected windows on the floor e.g. Akeld , Bellister , Doddington , Neworth , Northd . BATH Normally taken in a ... protect his feet from the cold . BATTER OR PLINTH see also Spur . The angled footing of a wall or tower designed to ...
Page 137
... protecting individual , particularly used in sieges or during the tenancy of a fixed position . It is also used of the ... protected , or his overload . PEEBLESHIRE Near the county town is Neidpath Castle . Traquair is also worth a visit ...
... protecting individual , particularly used in sieges or during the tenancy of a fixed position . It is also used of the ... protected , or his overload . PEEBLESHIRE Near the county town is Neidpath Castle . Traquair is also worth a visit ...
Page 138
... protected by a heavy framework of iron on its outer face ( see Yett ) . From the corner of the entrance floor a vice gave access to two ( or more ) upper floors which provided living quarters and defensive positions . The first floor ...
... protected by a heavy framework of iron on its outer face ( see Yett ) . From the corner of the entrance floor a vice gave access to two ( or more ) upper floors which provided living quarters and defensive positions . The first floor ...
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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