The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 78
... usually supported by a row of columns down the centre of the basement ( Chepstow , Newark , Spofforth ) . The first halls were usually of timber and probably placed against the walls of bailey to leave its centre free for stores and ...
... usually supported by a row of columns down the centre of the basement ( Chepstow , Newark , Spofforth ) . The first halls were usually of timber and probably placed against the walls of bailey to leave its centre free for stores and ...
Page 79
... usually paved or of beaten earth , strewn with rushes and its roof was high - pitched , carried on timber trusses . Original central hearth was usually replaced later by a fireplace in one of the side walls . Windows ( larger than usual ) ...
... usually paved or of beaten earth , strewn with rushes and its roof was high - pitched , carried on timber trusses . Original central hearth was usually replaced later by a fireplace in one of the side walls . Windows ( larger than usual ) ...
Page 114
... ( usually about a foot cube ) and face side dressed . Often transported by water for cheapness ( quarries at Barnack , Maidstone and Quarr are near navigable rivers ) . Both Saxons and Normans occasionally made bricks , which are used a ...
... ( usually about a foot cube ) and face side dressed . Often transported by water for cheapness ( quarries at Barnack , Maidstone and Quarr are near navigable rivers ) . Both Saxons and Normans occasionally made bricks , which are used a ...
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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