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Military Architecture in England During the Middle Ages

Note 370 — Chapter XII · THE AGE OF TRANSITION: THE FORTIFIED DWELLING-HOUSE

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This tower, like that at Stokesay, can be entered only by an outer door. This is at the foot of a turret containing a broad vice. The doorway had no portcullis, but was commanded by a slit in the wall from the stair, which ascends on the left of the entrance lobby.

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