D'Auvergne, Edmund B. (Edmund Basil) · London, T.W. Laurie · leaf 138
of which one of thepiers remains, and beside which a passage was excavatedin the escarp or near side of the ditch. Between thegate and the north-east tower are the traces of anothersubterranean gallery. At this angle of the enclosureis the keep, a square building now crumbling away toruin. It was… … < OSHU 3 tt<O H_)Htn<«u H XH SOME SWABIAN AND NORMAN CASTLES 105 fortress, have been stripped of their ashlar to a consider-able height. They are pierced with loopholes, whichseem to have lit a double-vaulted gallery. The interiorof the keep was an open court, in which stood a centraltower…
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