The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 8
... fortress . If the projection of the promontory becomes less pro- nounced and its 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 ...
... fortress . If the projection of the promontory becomes less pro- nounced and its 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 ...
Page 11
... fortress arising - the private stronghold . These structures were such a complete innovation that there was not even a name for them , and one had to be invented . The only type of fortress known hitherto was the communal stronghold ...
... fortress arising - the private stronghold . These structures were such a complete innovation that there was not even a name for them , and one had to be invented . The only type of fortress known hitherto was the communal stronghold ...
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... fortress of Kalat el Husn - Fortress of Horses - begun in 1202 , which is still almost perfect and shows three huge D - shaped towers like the keep at Helmsley . It must not be forgotten that there are English castles in distant Syria ...
... fortress of Kalat el Husn - Fortress of Horses - begun in 1202 , which is still almost perfect and shows three huge D - shaped towers like the keep at Helmsley . It must not be forgotten that there are English castles in distant Syria ...
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