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Mediæval military architecture in England (1884)

Clark, George Thomas, 1809-1898 · London, Wyman & sons · leaf 323

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KEEP, VERTICAL SECTION. east corner of the keep, and ascended to the main doorway on thesecond-floor level. This doorway, as at Middleham, is near thesouth end of the wall, but, notwithstanding, the steps must havebegun above the ground level, to reach, without undue steepness,so considerable a… … The Castles of Brough and Brotigham. 303 show that the staircase rose from the north-east angle, under acovered way or low tower, the battlements of which were evidentlyreached by the oblique passage still seen above in the wall, as atMiddleham and Rochester. Below the level of the original…

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