The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 7
... raised on the defender's side of the ditch ; this is invariably so with defensive earthwork . It will be appreciated that earthwork by itself will not serve as more than an obstruction to check and disorganise a charge of attacking ...
... raised on the defender's side of the ditch ; this is invariably so with defensive earthwork . It will be appreciated that earthwork by itself will not serve as more than an obstruction to check and disorganise a charge of attacking ...
Page 38
... raised on a basement , then reorganised and raised to the dignity of a great tower of masonry . The scale and dignity of these great towers must have appealed to the minds of the Norman feudal lords , and from the end of the eleventh ...
... raised on a basement , then reorganised and raised to the dignity of a great tower of masonry . The scale and dignity of these great towers must have appealed to the minds of the Norman feudal lords , and from the end of the eleventh ...
Page 76
... raised and crenellated so as to turn it into a sort of keep , the upper floor being , perhaps , the chamber . The absence of fireplaces is a noticeable feature of most early stone halls . The usual position for the fire in an early ...
... raised and crenellated so as to turn it into a sort of keep , the upper floor being , perhaps , the chamber . The absence of fireplaces is a noticeable feature of most early stone halls . The usual position for the fire in an early ...
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