The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 63
... engines were employed , as these were clumsy things to drag about from place to place in a country with practically ... engine in use during the century following the Conquest was the old classical machine called by the Byzantines , who ...
... engines were employed , as these were clumsy things to drag about from place to place in a country with practically ... engine in use during the century following the Conquest was the old classical machine called by the Byzantines , who ...
Page 71
... engines ) . It is doubtful whether our castles were as a general rule armed with engines , and certainly the solid bastion is very seldom found , the hollow habitable form being invariably adopted . The roofs of such towers were usually ...
... engines ) . It is doubtful whether our castles were as a general rule armed with engines , and certainly the solid bastion is very seldom found , the hollow habitable form being invariably adopted . The roofs of such towers were usually ...
Page 86
... engines ; but dysentery intervened , and the " Disinherited " at last surrendered , marching out with the honours of war . While on the subject of military engines it should be men- tioned that there were two types of engine which ...
... engines ; but dysentery intervened , and the " Disinherited " at last surrendered , marching out with the honours of war . While on the subject of military engines it should be men- tioned that there were two types of engine which ...
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