The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... seems to have been between 300 and 400 yds . BOW , LONG Appears first among the South Welsh in mid C12 who ( according to Gerald de Barri ) were able to penetrate an oak door four fingers thick . By mid C13 it had become the national ...
... seems to have been between 300 and 400 yds . BOW , LONG Appears first among the South Welsh in mid C12 who ( according to Gerald de Barri ) were able to penetrate an oak door four fingers thick . By mid C13 it had become the national ...
Page 76
... seems to have been a mixture of sulphur , pitch , charcoal and tallow to which saltpetre , turpentine and crude antimony may have been added . Its properties seem to have been adhesion and great difficulty in extinction . There is ...
... seems to have been a mixture of sulphur , pitch , charcoal and tallow to which saltpetre , turpentine and crude antimony may have been added . Its properties seem to have been adhesion and great difficulty in extinction . There is ...
Page 143
... seem very much an ' emergency exit ' as they open high on curtain walls or in the flank of a keep and presuppose a rope - ladder . ( The Bayeux tapestry portrays such an escape . ) A postern in the Black Gate , Newcastle , seems to have ...
... seem very much an ' emergency exit ' as they open high on curtain walls or in the flank of a keep and presuppose a rope - ladder . ( The Bayeux tapestry portrays such an escape . ) A postern in the Black Gate , Newcastle , seems to have ...
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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