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Timber Castles

By: University of Exeter Press

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (University of Exeter Press)


Product Info

Title
Timber Castles
Category
Author
Philip Barker, Robert Higham
Publish Year
2006
Pages
390
Dimensions
7.5x10x1.25"
NKG Part #
2148160728
Type
Softcover

Description

Runner-up for the book award in the 1994 British Archaeological Awards, Timber Castles is the standard work on the subject and hugely influential in its field. Its reissue makes available again this much sought after text with a new preface by Robert Higham.

Some of the greatest medieval castles survive only as earthworks and in pictures and written accounts . . . because they were made of timber. Robert Higham and Philip Barker, who excavated in detail the timber castle at Hen Domen in Wales, have brought together evidence of all kinds to produce the first comprehensive survey of this neglected and little-known type of fortification.