The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 50
... timber , half - timber ( ' post and pan ' ) , or stone . Fireplaces and chimneys were usually stone . Contemporary documents call domestic buildings ' houses within a castle ' , accurately reflecting the lack of organic planning or ...
... timber , half - timber ( ' post and pan ' ) , or stone . Fireplaces and chimneys were usually stone . Contemporary documents call domestic buildings ' houses within a castle ' , accurately reflecting the lack of organic planning or ...
Page 78
... TIMBER Apart from primitive hovels , the commonest form of mediaeval structure . A timber frame ( usually of oak beams pegged together ) , outlining window and door openings , was constructed and the gaps filled in with whatever was the ...
... TIMBER Apart from primitive hovels , the commonest form of mediaeval structure . A timber frame ( usually of oak beams pegged together ) , outlining window and door openings , was constructed and the gaps filled in with whatever was the ...
Page 114
... timber continued to be consumed in vast quantities for fuel , carpentry , engines , repair and maintenance . Pickering extracted from its forest ten oaks in 1250 , four in 1251 , 40 in 1256 , 110 in 1315 and 300 in 1323. Part of the timber ...
... timber continued to be consumed in vast quantities for fuel , carpentry , engines , repair and maintenance . Pickering extracted from its forest ten oaks in 1250 , four in 1251 , 40 in 1256 , 110 in 1315 and 300 in 1323. Part of the timber ...
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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