The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 17
... circular mound was extended to form an oval shape and later still its ditches were deepened and an enormous rampart raised around its rim . At Restormel in Cornwall , the castle has never outgrown its diminutive mound ( 9 ) . Sometimes ...
... circular mound was extended to form an oval shape and later still its ditches were deepened and an enormous rampart raised around its rim . At Restormel in Cornwall , the castle has never outgrown its diminutive mound ( 9 ) . Sometimes ...
Page 47
... circular hall - keep complete with cross - wall . Unfortunately only the basement remains ; it would have been remarkably interesting to have known what its main floor was like and how it was roofed . The first tower - keep to be built ...
... circular hall - keep complete with cross - wall . Unfortunately only the basement remains ; it would have been remarkably interesting to have known what its main floor was like and how it was roofed . The first tower - keep to be built ...
Page 71
... circular keeps , and their investigations in the East had confirmed them in their belief that the circular plan was a more efficient form than the square . Thus , almost as soon as the wall- tower comes into use in this country it gives ...
... circular keeps , and their investigations in the East had confirmed them in their belief that the circular plan was a more efficient form than the square . Thus , almost as soon as the wall- tower comes into use in this country it gives ...
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