The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 94
... sometimes penetrated to the virgin soil ( e.g. Skenfrith ) . When this precaution was not taken there was danger of slippage and consequent damage ( e.g. York ) . KEEP ENTRANCE The obviously vulnerable point in an otherwise very strong ...
... sometimes penetrated to the virgin soil ( e.g. Skenfrith ) . When this precaution was not taken there was danger of slippage and consequent damage ( e.g. York ) . KEEP ENTRANCE The obviously vulnerable point in an otherwise very strong ...
Page 189
... sometimes led to the re - use of earlier foundations , sometimes supplemented by a broader timber raft laid above them . The walls themselves could be made of rubble which was framed by wooden shuttering until the mortar set ( so at ...
... sometimes led to the re - use of earlier foundations , sometimes supplemented by a broader timber raft laid above them . The walls themselves could be made of rubble which was framed by wooden shuttering until the mortar set ( so at ...
Page 193
... sometimes needed protection otherwise a besieger could break it and denude the water defences . The fortified dam at Caerphilly is the most striking feature of perhaps the mightiest fortress in Britain ( 1267 ) . There were complex ...
... sometimes needed protection otherwise a besieger could break it and denude the water defences . The fortified dam at Caerphilly is the most striking feature of perhaps the mightiest fortress in Britain ( 1267 ) . There were complex ...
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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