The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 8
... base proportionately longer , so much more earthwork is needed and the defensive lines will curve across from flank to flank making the shape of the site approximately a sector of a circle . Perhaps there is no promontory at all , but ...
... base proportionately longer , so much more earthwork is needed and the defensive lines will curve across from flank to flank making the shape of the site approximately a sector of a circle . Perhaps there is no promontory at all , but ...
Page 69
... base of his wall busily engaged in undermining it — and he could not get at them . His first step would be to provide a closely wattled hurdle supported on brackets just in front of the crenel so as to protect himself when he leaned out ...
... base of his wall busily engaged in undermining it — and he could not get at them . His first step would be to provide a closely wattled hurdle supported on brackets just in front of the crenel so as to protect himself when he leaned out ...
Page 111
... base of each of its square angle towers ( 104 ) , so arranged as to enfilade the base of the main walls . Coastal defence was being improved in the Tudor period , and the ports of Fowey and Dartmouth were protected by pairs of towers ...
... base of each of its square angle towers ( 104 ) , so arranged as to enfilade the base of the main walls . Coastal defence was being improved in the Tudor period , and the ports of Fowey and Dartmouth were protected by pairs of towers ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 5 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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arch architects architecture bailey barbican basement Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris beautiful besiegers Bishop's Waltham built Caerphilly castellan castle halls CASTLE RISING castle-builders chapel Chilham circular clerestory constructed crenellated cross-wall defences ditch domestic buildings Dover early Norman earthwork Edward Edwardian elaborate enclosure engines England English castle entrance passage erected example feudal figs fireplace forebuilding fortress fourteenth century gallery garrison gate gatehouse hall and chamber hall-keep Henry HEREFORDSHIRE interior Kidwelly king later latrines lord main floor masonry MAXSTOKE mediaeval middle military moat MONMOUTHSHIRE motte motte-and-bailey motte-and-bailey castles Norman castle Orford outer palisades Portchester possibly protected ramparts remains Rochester roof round keep royal castles ruins Saxon scarps seems seen shell-keep Shropshire side siege stair staircase stone walls storey stronghold structures summit surrounded Sussex thirteenth century timber castle to-day tower Tower of London tower-keeps trebuchet twelfth century upper usually wall-towers WARWICKSHIRE Yorkshire