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Excerpt from Medieval Military Architecture in England, Vol. 1 It is this ancient history, this connexion with the earliest works of defence, that gives so great an interest to the older castles. When, in later days, and under extraordinary cir cumstances, it suited the king or some great baron to erect a castle in a new place, the fabric had no root, no associa tions. The grand characteristic of an old castle, the mighty earthwork, was wanting, and its place was ill supplied by masses of masony and a ditch of moderate dimensions. No tenants clustered round the place, to it no manors were attached, no dependents held lands by the tenure of its defence. Thus Bere, Beaumaris, ~caernarvon, Diganwy, Conway, Harlech, and Caerphilly, grand structures as were most of them, were mere intrusions upon the soil, and when the need that produced them ceased, as they represented no private estate, and were the residence of no great baron, they were left to fall into decay. Not the less are they of great architectural interest. They are mostly of one date, laid out and constructed upon one plan. Though intended for mili tary purposes, within the palace shares with the fortress. The accommodation afforded is ample, the main apartments are spacious, the ornamentation rich. The inner court, gate houses, and hall of Caerphilly are grander than anything of the sort in Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Full title: Medieval Military Architecture in England, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
• Author: George Thomas Clark
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544
• EAN: 9781334235115
• ISBN: 1334235112
• ID: 15433987
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 721 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. November 2016

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