The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 113
... stone . It can vary from the evidence of a hasty and unskilled rush job to consummate skill with the finest of material . Material was normally that which lay conveniently to hand , though early castles have stone from Caen . Roman stones ...
... stone . It can vary from the evidence of a hasty and unskilled rush job to consummate skill with the finest of material . Material was normally that which lay conveniently to hand , though early castles have stone from Caen . Roman stones ...
Page 114
... stone from Caen ( used e.g. at Arundel , Orford , Portchester ) but English stone was increasingly used under Angevins ( quarries included Corfe , Egremont , Folkestone , Pevensey , Reigate ) . Among varieties of local stone are clunch ...
... stone from Caen ( used e.g. at Arundel , Orford , Portchester ) but English stone was increasingly used under Angevins ( quarries included Corfe , Egremont , Folkestone , Pevensey , Reigate ) . Among varieties of local stone are clunch ...
Page 139
... stone projectiles were cut to a weight and shape related to the engine and the objective . Some stones were intended ... stone - cutters of your jurisdiction , with levers , sledges , mallets , wedges and other of Castle Fraser Elcho ...
... stone projectiles were cut to a weight and shape related to the engine and the objective . Some stones were intended ... stone - cutters of your jurisdiction , with levers , sledges , mallets , wedges and other of Castle Fraser Elcho ...
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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