Stronghold: A History of Military ArchitectureSchocken Books, 1985 - 192 pages |
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... Cadbury Castle , north of Yeovil in Somerset , has been inhabited intermittently since the days of Early Neolithic hunter - gatherers about 3600 BC . Its most distinctive feature is the multivallate Iron Age hillfort which crowns its ...
... Cadbury Castle , north of Yeovil in Somerset , has been inhabited intermittently since the days of Early Neolithic hunter - gatherers about 3600 BC . Its most distinctive feature is the multivallate Iron Age hillfort which crowns its ...
Page 53
... Cadbury Castle ( with their shopkeepers ' stalls just inside the main gate ) had gone on living there without interruption all through the period of the Roman conquest and its turbulent aftermath . And yet , just when lowland Britain ...
... Cadbury Castle ( with their shopkeepers ' stalls just inside the main gate ) had gone on living there without interruption all through the period of the Roman conquest and its turbulent aftermath . And yet , just when lowland Britain ...
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... Cadbury Castle was evidently a place of some importance , as archaeologists have uncovered the foundations of a Welsh - style feasting hall , measuring 19.2 × 10.4 metres . The amount of work involved in refortifying Cadbury Castle ...
... Cadbury Castle was evidently a place of some importance , as archaeologists have uncovered the foundations of a Welsh - style feasting hall , measuring 19.2 × 10.4 metres . The amount of work involved in refortifying Cadbury Castle ...
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accommodation Antonine Wall armour artillery assault attack barracks base bastions battery battle became besieged blockhouses bombardment Britain British brochs building built Cadbury Castle camp cannon captured casemates century Chepstow Castle citadel Constantinople construction covered Crusader curtain wall Deal Castle defenders ditch earth Eastbourne Redoubt embrasures emperor Empire enemy entrance equipment erected field army fieldworks fire force fortifications fortress forts French frontier garrison gates German gunpowder guns Hadrian's Wall Harlech Castle Henry VIII hillforts infantry invader iron Iron Age keep kilometres King legion Maginot Line Martello Martello Towers massive medieval ment metres metres high metres thick metres wide military architecture missiles mortar motte-and-bailey mounted Norman operations palisade parapet perhaps pillboxes protection purpose-built raids rampart refuge Rochester Castle Roman roof round royal side siege slope soldiers solid stone stronghold strongpoints structures surrender surrounded target timber tion towers troops tunnels turrets Vauban warfare warriors weapons wooden