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BRATTICE ( Bretasch ) A wooden palisade or stockade to provide perimeter defence . Usually made from squared timber ( oak ) , like old - fashioned railway sleepers , planted deep and closely together on top of mound or rampart .
BRATTICE ( Bretasch ) A wooden palisade or stockade to provide perimeter defence . Usually made from squared timber ( oak ) , like old - fashioned railway sleepers , planted deep and closely together on top of mound or rampart .
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Castle kitchens seem to have been originally wooden buildings occupying a corner of the bailey . Henry III's kitchen at Oxford was blown down by a gale in 1232 and archaeology at Weobley has identified a wooden ...
Castle kitchens seem to have been originally wooden buildings occupying a corner of the bailey . Henry III's kitchen at Oxford was blown down by a gale in 1232 and archaeology at Weobley has identified a wooden ...
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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 .
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 .
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