The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 47
... round type of tower were progress- ing . The round keep had been tried out at least once before , apparently in Stephen's reign , in just that part of England where one would expect to find round towers - East Anglia . The builder of ...
... round type of tower were progress- ing . The round keep had been tried out at least once before , apparently in Stephen's reign , in just that part of England where one would expect to find round towers - East Anglia . The builder of ...
Page 52
... round keep which appears never to have been finished and is not very high . There is a good round keep on a motte at Hawarden in Flintshire , and two lofty examples may be seen at Tretower and Bronllys in Breconshire . Above the ...
... round keep which appears never to have been finished and is not very high . There is a good round keep on a motte at Hawarden in Flintshire , and two lofty examples may be seen at Tretower and Bronllys in Breconshire . Above the ...
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... round tower which is sometimes called the keep . At Caldecot in Monmouth a fine round tower was built at one angle , and to complete the illusion a small motte was actually raised round its base . The round tower - keep continued to be ...
... round tower which is sometimes called the keep . At Caldecot in Monmouth a fine round tower was built at one angle , and to complete the illusion a small motte was actually raised round its base . The round tower - keep continued to be ...
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