The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 28
... turning their attention to rebuilding their timber houses in stone , it seems to have occurred to them that while they ... turn the building into something resem- bling a tower . The timber building being awkwardly long for this purpose ...
... turning their attention to rebuilding their timber houses in stone , it seems to have occurred to them that while they ... turn the building into something resem- bling a tower . The timber building being awkwardly long for this purpose ...
Page 55
... turn their attention to the better protection of their castle yards with higher stone walls . Let us therefore turn to the reasons for this change of policy . 7 I CHAPTER I II LOFTY WALLS " And ever stode the GREAT STONE TOWER S 57.
... turn their attention to the better protection of their castle yards with higher stone walls . Let us therefore turn to the reasons for this change of policy . 7 I CHAPTER I II LOFTY WALLS " And ever stode the GREAT STONE TOWER S 57.
Page 63
... turns of string until you have a sort of thick skein joining the two legs . In the middle of this skein insert the end of ... turn . This is the principle of the mangon , which has an arm with its lower end fixed in a very thick skein of ...
... turns of string until you have a sort of thick skein joining the two legs . In the middle of this skein insert the end of ... turn . This is the principle of the mangon , which has an arm with its lower end fixed in a very thick skein of ...
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