The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 163
... siege ) with other knights whom they had previously imprisoned , to go unharmed . They then made their own submission and hoisted the royal standard to the top of the tower . Thus they remained , under the king's custody , on the tower ...
... siege ) with other knights whom they had previously imprisoned , to go unharmed . They then made their own submission and hoisted the royal standard to the top of the tower . Thus they remained , under the king's custody , on the tower ...
Page 164
... siege engines to be carted from Lincoln and Northampton across Oxfordshire while others were built on the spot by carpenters who had ridden post - haste by day and night from the royal stronghold at Windsor ... Siege Engine Siege Engines.
... siege engines to be carted from Lincoln and Northampton across Oxfordshire while others were built on the spot by carpenters who had ridden post - haste by day and night from the royal stronghold at Windsor ... Siege Engine Siege Engines.
Page 165
... siege lines when the garrison made a vigorous sally and captured much baggage and equipment . Next day they were assaulted with showers of stones but replied with devastating ... Siege Sinks In the siege of Hereford castle ( 1140 ). 165.
... siege lines when the garrison made a vigorous sally and captured much baggage and equipment . Next day they were assaulted with showers of stones but replied with devastating ... Siege Sinks In the siege of Hereford castle ( 1140 ). 165.
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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