The castles of England, their story and structure (1896)
Mackenzie, James Dixon, Sir, 7th bart. of Scatwell and 9th of Tarbat, 1830-1900 · New York : The Macmillan co. · leaf 46
.), when it seems that the top of the Roman Pharos wasbuilt under Constable Riehard de Cirey, whose arms are sculptured upon it ; butnothing else remains (jf the three otlier towers which have been sacrificed,certainly without necessity, at various periods to the fancies of presiding engineersin… … DOVER elsewhere in this countrj. It is a concentric fortitication, in which, since waterdefences were of necessity absent, security had to be sought chiefly in its massivewalls, encrusted with flanking towers, and in the mutual support afforded betweenthese and certain detached towers and outworks.…
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