The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 25
... shows clearly the castle mound ( 54 ) -rather squashed laterally , however - with the ditch at its foot and the sloping bridge rising , at an impossible angle , to the edge of the palisaded summit . Over the palisades appear the upper ...
... shows clearly the castle mound ( 54 ) -rather squashed laterally , however - with the ditch at its foot and the sloping bridge rising , at an impossible angle , to the edge of the palisaded summit . Over the palisades appear the upper ...
Page 32
... shows the transitional style . The strip " buttresses ” are present , but the broadening out of the angle pilasters and the special circular turret for the north - east stair show the depar- ture from the old wooden technique towards ...
... shows the transitional style . The strip " buttresses ” are present , but the broadening out of the angle pilasters and the special circular turret for the north - east stair show the depar- ture from the old wooden technique towards ...
Page 39
... shows how this was done . First a tunnel was driven across the angle to cut it off from the tower and then the whole angle was undermined with cross - galleries until the props could be fired and the whole corner of the keep , over a ...
... shows how this was done . First a tunnel was driven across the angle to cut it off from the tower and then the whole angle was undermined with cross - galleries until the props could be fired and the whole corner of the keep , over a ...
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