The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... royal castles . We know the names of some of the engineers and chief master - craftsmen and consequently there is a tendency to concentrate on this information and give royal castles an even greater significance than they rightly ...
... royal castles . We know the names of some of the engineers and chief master - craftsmen and consequently there is a tendency to concentrate on this information and give royal castles an even greater significance than they rightly ...
Page 154
... royal castles . They were not only defensive strongholds but bases to command areas and lines of communication . When armies were small and their cohesion brief , command of a territory depended on possessing its castles . Plantagenet ...
... royal castles . They were not only defensive strongholds but bases to command areas and lines of communication . When armies were small and their cohesion brief , command of a territory depended on possessing its castles . Plantagenet ...
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... Royal Castle prevent the exclusive control of a large district by baronial castles , to ensure that strategic fortresses were in trustworthy hands and to arrange that the placing of royal castles expressed and upheld royal authority as ...
... Royal Castle prevent the exclusive control of a large district by baronial castles , to ensure that strategic fortresses were in trustworthy hands and to arrange that the placing of royal castles expressed and upheld royal authority as ...
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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