The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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... known that this was built by King David of Scotland in 1136. It is not large , much smaller than Lan- caster , but very similar in its simplicity of plan , having a central cross - wall only . Its interior has been ruined by being ...
... known that this was built by King David of Scotland in 1136. It is not large , much smaller than Lan- caster , but very similar in its simplicity of plan , having a central cross - wall only . Its interior has been ruined by being ...
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... known as New Buckenham . He apparently wished to build there a hall- keep , but found himself in the same position as the local church builders who could not find stone for the angles of their towers . So he , like them , built his keep ...
... known as New Buckenham . He apparently wished to build there a hall- keep , but found himself in the same position as the local church builders who could not find stone for the angles of their towers . So he , like them , built his keep ...
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... known to have been crowned by shell - keeps and the castles of Bedford , Hereford and Gloucester , of which even the mottes have vanished , are known to have had keeps of this type . There are some hun- dreds of motte castles in England ...
... known to have been crowned by shell - keeps and the castles of Bedford , Hereford and Gloucester , of which even the mottes have vanished , are known to have had keeps of this type . There are some hun- dreds of motte castles in England ...
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