The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... wall - walk along the top of a curtain ( q.v. ) to aid its defence ; also used of timber walk overhanging the wall face ( See Hoarding . ) The overhanging allures at the summit of high walls and towers were a C13 innovation which ...
... wall - walk along the top of a curtain ( q.v. ) to aid its defence ; also used of timber walk overhanging the wall face ( See Hoarding . ) The overhanging allures at the summit of high walls and towers were a C13 innovation which ...
Page 135
... wall of a wall - walk or allure . It is sometimes found in livery - and - maintenance castles where danger may be expected from within the castle - enclosure . PARAPET The battlemented wall protecting a rampart or roof - walk towards ...
... wall of a wall - walk or allure . It is sometimes found in livery - and - maintenance castles where danger may be expected from within the castle - enclosure . PARAPET The battlemented wall protecting a rampart or roof - walk towards ...
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... wall was coated with plaster and whitewash and was then painted ( often with thin red lines imitating regular ... walk so that a successful escalade was both exposed and confined . There are three types of wall towers : ( i ) Open ...
... wall was coated with plaster and whitewash and was then painted ( often with thin red lines imitating regular ... walk so that a successful escalade was both exposed and confined . There are three types of wall towers : ( i ) Open ...
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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