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The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (1887)

MacGibbon, David, d. 1902, Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 31

An illustration from The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century, 1887, leaf 31 — century. The entrance door was then, no doubt,on the first floor, immediately over the inserted Norman doorway. Theextent of the building and its lowness are very unusual Norman features,but these may have been suggested by some previous Roman work onthe site. The exterior walls were cased with… … Pig. 7.—Colchester Castle. Interior. The sketch of the interior of the kee}> (Fig. 7) gives a fine exampleof the herring-bone method of building with brick, derived fromRoman times, and not uncommon in Norman brick-work, as at GuildfordCastle and elsewhere. ENGLISH EXAMPLES — 1.3 INTRODUCTION…

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