The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 11
... range fire ; sturdier sheaf arrows ( 27 ins ) for close - range piercing of mail and occasionally plate armour ( if a square hit could be obtained ) . The warheads were either broad - head ( like the ' broad arrow ' ) to use against ...
... range fire ; sturdier sheaf arrows ( 27 ins ) for close - range piercing of mail and occasionally plate armour ( if a square hit could be obtained ) . The warheads were either broad - head ( like the ' broad arrow ' ) to use against ...
Page 17
... range since bolts , unlike arrows , do not ' fly ' . The long - bow was light and comfortable while the crossbow was heavy , cumbersome and had more moving parts . The longbow - man could ... range . Bow , Long Ranges : Long - bow 220 yds.
... range since bolts , unlike arrows , do not ' fly ' . The long - bow was light and comfortable while the crossbow was heavy , cumbersome and had more moving parts . The longbow - man could ... range . Bow , Long Ranges : Long - bow 220 yds.
Page 18
... range and penetrating power with a vast superiority in rate of fire . At a furlong range he could pierce a mailed knight through breast and back or nail both thighs to his horse with one shot . This effectiveness resulted in defensive ...
... range and penetrating power with a vast superiority in rate of fire . At a furlong range he could pierce a mailed knight through breast and back or nail both thighs to his horse with one shot . This effectiveness resulted in defensive ...
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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