The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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... of study in history . It illustrates the whole of the English Middle Ages and their military transformation under the effect of artillery . The English castle is to - day one of three things : a ruin , a restoration , or a fragment on to ...
... of study in history . It illustrates the whole of the English Middle Ages and their military transformation under the effect of artillery . The English castle is to - day one of three things : a ruin , a restoration , or a fragment on to ...
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Hugh Braun. Westmorland and the City of London ; there are in addition the ... to A.D. 1600 , and it is concerned with Europe and the Levant as well as the ... day . Over the great gatehouse of Cooling Castle ( 8 ) on the Kentish shore ...
Hugh Braun. Westmorland and the City of London ; there are in addition the ... to A.D. 1600 , and it is concerned with Europe and the Levant as well as the ... day . Over the great gatehouse of Cooling Castle ( 8 ) on the Kentish shore ...
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... to meet some new weapon which has been invented to assault them . It is necessary to study the development of the castle from its very beginning before you can really appreciate such examples as remain to us to - day . And the beginning ...
... to meet some new weapon which has been invented to assault them . It is necessary to study the development of the castle from its very beginning before you can really appreciate such examples as remain to us to - day . And the beginning ...
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