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 61
and strength, and contains three tiers of defences, viz., twogalleries with loop-holes in the thickness of the walls, and the parapetwalk above. The towers are here octagonal in form. The sketch showsthe Eagle Tower, which is the largest, and seems to have been intendedas a kind of redoubt. This… … -^i«fettr- ;.^ Fig. 34.—Pevensey Castle, Sussex. Pevensey has already been referred to as exhibiting Roman work inits outer walls. But within the Roman walls a portion of the site was inSaxon times cut off by a deep ditch, and a motte erected within thisdefence. ENGLISH EXAMPLES _ 43 — INTRODUCTION…
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