Medieval FortificationsLeicester University Press, 1990 - 233 pages The author considers the period from the introduction of the castle by the Normans to the accession of the Tudors and adopts a broadly thematic approach. The book provides a synthesis of what has been learnt about the development, form and function of British castles through excavations since 1945. |
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Page 78
... barbican is an outer defence to the main entrance of a castle , with its own gateway , and often standing within its own ditch . Extant examples are not numerous in Britain ; a twelfth - century barbican survives at Dover , enclosing an ...
... barbican is an outer defence to the main entrance of a castle , with its own gateway , and often standing within its own ditch . Extant examples are not numerous in Britain ; a twelfth - century barbican survives at Dover , enclosing an ...
Page 79
... barbican had a rectangular platform added to it on the north side ( Stocker 1983 : 23 , figure 8 , 25-6 ) , with its west wall on a stone foundation above the ditch , and the east side cut into the existing bank . Although the ...
... barbican had a rectangular platform added to it on the north side ( Stocker 1983 : 23 , figure 8 , 25-6 ) , with its west wall on a stone foundation above the ditch , and the east side cut into the existing bank . Although the ...
Page 81
... barbican and its contemporaries at the Tower of London and Goodrich is that the one at Sandal was a tower , whilst the larger examples at the other two consisted of a curtain surrounding an open yard , but possibly with lean - to ...
... barbican and its contemporaries at the Tower of London and Goodrich is that the one at Sandal was a tower , whilst the larger examples at the other two consisted of a curtain surrounding an open yard , but possibly with lean - to ...
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