The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 20
... palisades to run smoothly round the sharp angles of a rectangle , and also because at the angles of an earthwork ... palisades had of course to cross the ditch and mount the sides of the motte to join the palisades at its summit or ...
... palisades to run smoothly round the sharp angles of a rectangle , and also because at the angles of an earthwork ... palisades had of course to cross the ditch and mount the sides of the motte to join the palisades at its summit or ...
Page 53
... palisades were well protected by the scarps above which they rose , and it would have been difficult to pile up a fire against them , the entrance gate might have no ditch in front of it , or perhaps almost as bad , a permanent bridge ...
... palisades were well protected by the scarps above which they rose , and it would have been difficult to pile up a fire against them , the entrance gate might have no ditch in front of it , or perhaps almost as bad , a permanent bridge ...
Page 68
... palisades were often replaced by low stone walls , perhaps six to eight feet thick and ten to twenty feet high , with a wall along the top protected by a crenellated parapet , having embrasures or " crenels " every now and again with ...
... palisades were often replaced by low stone walls , perhaps six to eight feet thick and ten to twenty feet high , with a wall along the top protected by a crenellated parapet , having embrasures or " crenels " every now and again with ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 5 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
Copyright | |
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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