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Mediæval military architecture in England (1884)

Clark, George Thomas, 1809-1898 · London, Wyman & sons · leaf 329

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very dangerous frontier, it is not surprising that its walls andtowers were planned with some skill, and executed with great passivestrength. But of the works in masonry, scarce a trace now remainsabove ground, and the site of a fortress which could hold Llewelynand his armed Welshmen in check,… … THE CASTLL OF BUILTH. S,cde of I The Castle of Bidlth, in Brecknockshire. 307 Moreover these earthworks, which have survived the masonry thatfor so many centuries crowned their summits, are, it is evident, otfar earlier date than the Norman work, and have only in theselatter times resumed much of…

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