The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 41
... 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 improved by increasing the number of ...
... 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 improved by increasing the number of ...
Page 109
... replaced during C14 by stone corbels which carried a masonry crenellation and provided openings in the floor for ... replacing timber constructions with stone , improving domestic facilities , re - decoration . Repairs could extend from ...
... replaced during C14 by stone corbels which carried a masonry crenellation and provided openings in the floor for ... replacing timber constructions with stone , improving domestic facilities , re - decoration . Repairs could extend from ...
Page 116
... replacing the melée with single - combat encounters using blunted weapons . MERCENARIES see also Livery and Maintenence . Henry III Professional soldiers who replaced the amateur feudal levies who could only remain in the field for ...
... replacing the melée with single - combat encounters using blunted weapons . MERCENARIES see also Livery and Maintenence . Henry III Professional soldiers who replaced the amateur feudal levies who could only remain in the field for ...
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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