The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles (Classic Reprint)

Some portions of this book have already appeared in print. Of these, the most important is the catalogtie razsonn of es Lvly Norman castles in England which will be found in Chapter VII., and which was originally published in the English Historical Review (vol. xix., 1904). It has, however, been enlarged by the inclusion of five fresh castles, and by notes upon thirty-four others, of which the article in the Review gave only the names ;the historical notes in that essay being confined to the castles mentioned in Domesday Book. The chapter on I rish mottes appeared in the Antiquary (vol. xlii., 1906), but it has been revised, corrected, and added to. Portions of a still earlier paper, read before the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in March 1900, are incorporated in various parts of -the book, but these have been recast in the fuller treat.- -ment of the subject which is aimed at here. AT he rest of the work is entirely new. No serious attempt had been made to ascertain the exact nature of Saxon and Danish fortifications by a comparison of the existing remains with the historical records which have come down to us, until the publication of Mr A llcroft svaluable book on Earthwork of England.
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