The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... building completely surrounding the summit of a motte or revetted against its lower slopes . The walls varied in height from 20-25 ft and were from 8-10 ft thick , strengthened by buttress and , sometimes , wall - towers . The interior ...
... building completely surrounding the summit of a motte or revetted against its lower slopes . The walls varied in height from 20-25 ft and were from 8-10 ft thick , strengthened by buttress and , sometimes , wall - towers . The interior ...
Page 179
... TOWER see also Keep , Wall - tower . Large tower took about a season to raise 10-12 ft at a cost of at least £ 100 p.a. Their plan developed from the square or rectangle to a polygonal or circular one . Mural towers often retained the ...
... TOWER see also Keep , Wall - tower . Large tower took about a season to raise 10-12 ft at a cost of at least £ 100 p.a. Their plan developed from the square or rectangle to a polygonal or circular one . Mural towers often retained the ...
Page 190
... towers on outer curtain would overtop wall by 10 ft and on inner curtain by 15 ft . ( See also Curtain , Mantelet , Town Walls . ) WALL GALLERIES Fighting platforms in the thickness of the walls . They occur in some great towers but are ...
... towers on outer curtain would overtop wall by 10 ft and on inner curtain by 15 ft . ( See also Curtain , Mantelet , Town Walls . ) WALL GALLERIES Fighting platforms in the thickness of the walls . They occur in some great towers but are ...
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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