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Mediæval military architecture in England (1884)

Clark, George Thomas, 1809-1898 · London, Wyman & sons · leaf 295

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and in these respects Bridgenorth may challenge comparisonwith Coucy, which it also resembles in the relation of the castle tothe town. In both places the castle lay contiguous to the town, andtheir connected defences formed the common eficeinte, while thecastle had besides a ditch proper to… … BRIDGENORTH CASTLE. the castle ditch traversed the platform from one face to the other.Of the defences of the town only the north gate remains, and that ina very mutilated and disguised form, but the line of the walls maybe traced, partly by the inequality of the ground and the arrange-ment of the…

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