The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 95
... wooden buildings occupying a corner of the bailey . Henry III's kitchen at Oxford was blown down by a gale in 1232 and 0419 el Kitchens Rochester , Kent ( from seal ) Loch Leven , Kinrosshire archaeology at Weobley has identified a wooden ...
... wooden buildings occupying a corner of the bailey . Henry III's kitchen at Oxford was blown down by a gale in 1232 and 0419 el Kitchens Rochester , Kent ( from seal ) Loch Leven , Kinrosshire archaeology at Weobley has identified a wooden ...
Page 171
... wooden staircase ending in a drawbridge . When this stair was stone it usually was protected by a forebuilding . Interior communication may have involved two staircases ; one privy , the other public ( usually newels and often placed in ...
... wooden staircase ending in a drawbridge . When this stair was stone it usually was protected by a forebuilding . Interior communication may have involved two staircases ; one privy , the other public ( usually newels and often placed in ...
Page 197
... WOODEN TOWER see also Ardres . The tower crowning earliest mottes was wooden and elevated on stilts and often called by some Latin version of ' brattice ' or ' brettache ' , a word used later for quite a different structure . - William ...
... WOODEN TOWER see also Ardres . The tower crowning earliest mottes was wooden and elevated on stilts and often called by some Latin version of ' brattice ' or ' brettache ' , a word used later for quite a different structure . - William ...
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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