Timber Castles

by Higham, Robert; Barker, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780811717472
• ISBN10: 081171747X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-02-01
• Publisher: Stackpole Books

Summary

Runner-up for the book award in the 1994 British Archaeological Awards, Timber Castles is the standard work on the subject and hugely infl uential in its fi eld. 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.

Author Biography

Philip Barker was formerly Reader in British Archaeology, University of Birmingham. Robert Higham was formerly Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Exeter.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Preface to 1992 edition

Preface to new edition

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Timber castles: their study and background

Origins of timber castles in the British Isles

Origins of timber castles in Europe

The documentary contribution

The pictorial evidence

Stone and timber

The earthworks of timber castles

The structures of timber castles: the excavated evidence and its interpretation

Hen Domen, Montgomery: a case-study

Epilogue

Gazetteer of excavations in Great Britain and Ireland

Timber castle vocabulary B. Castel

Notes

Further reading

Index

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