The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 63
... walls together with increased accuracy . ( d ) The very height of curtains and towers increased the size of the target and thus made them more vulnerable ( c.f. the walls of Berwick with e.g. the walls of York ) . FIREPLACES Hand ...
... walls together with increased accuracy . ( d ) The very height of curtains and towers increased the size of the target and thus made them more vulnerable ( c.f. the walls of Berwick with e.g. the walls of York ) . FIREPLACES Hand ...
Page 141
... walls which served as walls of domestic apartments , forming a rectangle with towers at angles , gatehouse in centre of one long side , four ranges backing on to curtain with comparatively small central courtyard ( or none at all ) ...
... walls which served as walls of domestic apartments , forming a rectangle with towers at angles , gatehouse in centre of one long side , four ranges backing on to curtain with comparatively small central courtyard ( or none at all ) ...
Page 190
... 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 rare in English curtains . Good ...
... 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 rare in English curtains . Good ...
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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