The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 9
... defences and size of area enclosed is concerned , the prehistoric " camps " are all , of course , much more extensive , being fortified towns and not merely the defensible residences of single households . What splendid spectacles the ...
... defences and size of area enclosed is concerned , the prehistoric " camps " are all , of course , much more extensive , being fortified towns and not merely the defensible residences of single households . What splendid spectacles the ...
Page 23
... defences of the early Norman castle . It is now necessary for us to consider the house which such defences were designed to protect . For in its origin the castle was essentially a protected residence , with the garrison castle as a ...
... defences of the early Norman castle . It is now necessary for us to consider the house which such defences were designed to protect . For in its origin the castle was essentially a protected residence , with the garrison castle as a ...
Page 98
... defences . The number of men suitable for the defence of a town wall seems to have been considered as three men to each two crenels in the parapet , which appears to make allowance for casualties . The early years of the fourteenth ...
... defences . The number of men suitable for the defence of a town wall seems to have been considered as three men to each two crenels in the parapet , which appears to make allowance for casualties . The early years of the fourteenth ...
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