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Military Architecture in England During the Middle Ages

Note 357 — Chapter XII · THE AGE OF TRANSITION: THE FORTIFIED DWELLING-HOUSE

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The stone gatehouse of the Norman castle appears to be incorporated in the fourteenth-century work, the outer archway, which was covered by a barbican, being merely a facing added to earlier work. The inner walls of the gatehouse were also lengthened, as part of the fourteenth-century enlargement.

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