Clark, George Thomas, 1809-1898 · London, Wyman & sons · leaf 474
lory of Conisborough, and though inferior insize to Caesars or Beauchamps Tower at Warwick, is more thantheir equal in its masonry, and more complete, inasmuch as it isa keep, and those are subsidiary towers. It stands nearly at thenorth-east extremity, and at the highest part of the inner… … KEEP, FROM OUTSIDE THE CURTAIN. Indeed, no artificial mound could bear so concentrated a weight.It stands upon the natural surface, here a rock. It has no specialditch, and the ground shows that it never had any. There was,indeed, no need of the usual ditch, which was represented by thenatural…
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