The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 159
... SHELL - KEEP Masonry building completely surrounding the summit of a motte or revetted against its lower slopes . The walls varied in height from 20-25 ft and were from 8-10 ft thick , strengthened by buttress and , sometimes , wall ...
... SHELL - KEEP Masonry building completely surrounding the summit of a motte or revetted against its lower slopes . The walls varied in height from 20-25 ft and were from 8-10 ft thick , strengthened by buttress and , sometimes , wall ...
Page 221
... shell - keep and inserted tower of C13 . Remains of gates , curtain and ruins of domestic buildings . ( 38 , 52 , 159 , 165 ) . LAVENDON , Buckinghamshire 9153 C12 E O Motte ( d . 1944 ) and three rectangular baileys . ( 21 ) . LEA ...
... shell - keep and inserted tower of C13 . Remains of gates , curtain and ruins of domestic buildings . ( 38 , 52 , 159 , 165 ) . LAVENDON , Buckinghamshire 9153 C12 E O Motte ( d . 1944 ) and three rectangular baileys . ( 21 ) . LEA ...
Page 231
... shell - keep with square wall - tower ( C12 ? ) , wing - wall with herringbone ( C11 ) , postern . Shell filled with C16-18 buildings . ( 85 , 159 , 170 ) . TATTERSHALL , Lincolnshire 2157 C13 , 15 B P ( NT ) In inner bailey of earlier ...
... shell - keep with square wall - tower ( C12 ? ) , wing - wall with herringbone ( C11 ) , postern . Shell filled with C16-18 buildings . ( 85 , 159 , 170 ) . TATTERSHALL , Lincolnshire 2157 C13 , 15 B P ( NT ) In inner bailey of earlier ...
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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