other
resources for Users of The Gatehouse
As this site has developed I've add several pages of various data of interest
to castle studies. By far the most important of these is a list of licences
to crenellate. Additional items will be added from time to time.
- A comprehensive list of Licences to Crenellate of
England and Wales, with details of each licence.
- Some statistical analysis of the data
in the list.
- A selection of Distribution Maps.
- Types and Naming of Fortifications
- For details of the classification scheme used in this web site click here.
- For information on some of the classification systems
that are used for medieval fortifications click
here.
- Defining the castle; an extended essay on what the castle is click here
- For a short essay on minor timber castles click
here.
- For some more information on the location
of medieval fortifications click here. This
includes comments of map references, county boundary changes and the factors
effecting the positioning of castles.
- Mounds of earth; For a discussion on mounds of earth which may, or may
not be castles click
here.
- Northumberland Fortifications; Some late medieval lists of fortifications
in Northumberland are detailed here.
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