The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 39
... whole angle was undermined with cross - galleries until the props could be fired and the whole corner of the keep , over a hundred feet high to the top of the turret , toppled over down the hillside . Fig . 42 shows the angle of the ...
... whole angle was undermined with cross - galleries until the props could be fired and the whole corner of the keep , over a hundred feet high to the top of the turret , toppled over down the hillside . Fig . 42 shows the angle of the ...
Page 47
... whole building is just a trifle pathetic - a great venture , but obsolete almost as soon as it was begun . The arches within the keep are very interesting as they are of the depressed segmental type instead of the usual Norman ...
... whole building is just a trifle pathetic - a great venture , but obsolete almost as soon as it was begun . The arches within the keep are very interesting as they are of the depressed segmental type instead of the usual Norman ...
Page 60
... whole shield became shorter and less pointed , the shape being rather like that of a flat - iron . It will be appreciated that the whole point of building a garrison fortress ( as opposed to a residential castle ) was that the passive ...
... whole shield became shorter and less pointed , the shape being rather like that of a flat - iron . It will be appreciated that the whole point of building a garrison fortress ( as opposed to a residential castle ) was that the passive ...
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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