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战壕,包括莫特峰上的两条战壕,几乎什么也没暴露。唯一的结构性证据是一个单独的死柱,也许是栅栏的死柱。该遗址似乎在完工前就被遗弃了,这本身就引起了城堡研究生的兴趣。蓬滕德雷以北约半英里处是朗镇村,有一座砖石城堡,突出的特点是莫特河畔的圆形城堡。城堡有一个内部和外部的贝雷,城墙在格林城堡的东侧。这座东部城墙,加上贝利防御工事,看起来像一座罗马堡垒,考古确实揭示了公元一世纪末至二世纪的罗马材料。中世纪学者更感兴趣的是发现朗镇的城墙在城堡建造之前就已经加高,作者认为这项工作是由哈罗德·戈德温森在这是他对抗威尔士大部分地区统治者Gruffudd ap Llywelyn运动的一部分,直到他死于年的同胞之手. 德莱西大塔的研究将引起种姓学家的特别兴趣。关于建造日期,有两个学派。大多数人都会接受13世纪初的几十年,当时威尔士东南部的大部分圆形城堡和马尔凯城堡都是在这个时候建造的。然而,这一理论与其中一扇窗户中使用的诺曼雕刻的砖石圆形不一致,这表明其年代为12世纪晚期,是赫里福德郡罗马式雕塑学校的产物。然而,窗户显然不是为龙镇设计的,这位评论家仍然认为这座塔的日期是13世纪初。作者对Longtown大塔的研究确实表明,假设文本经过同行评审,评审者不是种姓学家。据说,当苏格兰有两座大圆塔时,就没有了,那就是博思韦尔城堡和基尔德拉米城堡。这本书不仅仅是一份挖掘报告,第一部分大约有50页。第二部分,本书的核心,结束 pages,是Ewyas及其密切相关的家族de Lacy王朝的“新”历史,该家族与什罗普郡的Ludlow和Meath郡的Trim密切相关。四个附录对德拉西斯的某些方面有了更多的了解。洛加斯顿已经发表了对德·克莱尔、菲扎兰和莫蒂默家族的研究,这是另外三个伟大的马歇尔王朝,莱西的贡献是有用的。Logaston出版社,最初由Andy Johnson于, 有着悠久的历史,出版了关于威尔士行军历史各个方面的精品书籍。印记仍然存在,但出版社于年被Fircone出版社的苏和理查德·惠勒接管, 愿它长盛不衰。在惠勒的领导下,制作质量有所提高,尤其是在插图方面。尽管这是一家小型家族企业,但图书制作的某些方面需要仔细观察。在这种情况下,是参考书目,其中的参考文献被复制或以错误的顺序出现,而且,我敢说,审稿人写的并在第一个尾注中引用的项目被省略了!
The Agincourt Campaign of 1415: the retinues of the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester. By Michael P Warner. Pp xi + 239. The Boydell Press Woodbridge, 2021. isbn 9781783276363. £60 (hbk).
trenches, including two on the motte summit, revealed almost nothing. The only structural evidence was a solitary posthole, perhaps for the palisade. It would appear that the site was abandoned before completion, which in itself is of interest to students of castle studies. About half a mile to the north of Ponthendre lies the village of Longtown, with its masonry castle, the prominent feature being the round keep on the motte. The castle has an inner and outer bailey, with the rampart running on the east side of Castle Green. This eastern rampart, together with the bailey defences, combine to give the appearance of a Roman fort, and the archaeology did indeed reveal Roman material of the late first century AD and into the second. Of more interest to medievalists was the discovery that the rampart at Longtown had been heightened before the castle was built, and the authors have suggested that this work was undertaken by Harold Godwinson in the s as part of his campaign against Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, ruler of much of Wales until his death at the hands of his compatriots in . The study of the de Lacy great tower will be of particular interest to castellologists. There are two schools of thought regarding the date of construction. Most would accept a date in the opening decades of the thirteenth century, a time when most of the round keeps in south-east Wales and the Marches were built. However, this theory is at odds with the Norman carved masonry roundels used in one of the windows, suggesting a later twelfth century date, products of the Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculpture. However, the window voussoirs were clearly not designed for Longtown, and this reviewer would still argue for a date in the early thirteenth century for the tower. The authors’ study of the great tower at Longtown does suggest that, assuming the text was subject to a peer review, the reviewer was not a castellologist. It is stated that there are no great round towers in Scotland when there are two, at the castles of Bothwell and Kildrummy. This book is more than an excavation report, itself covered in some fifty pages in part one. Part two, the core of the book, over pages, is a ‘new’ history of Ewyas and the family with which it is strongly associated, the de Lacy dynasty, a family strongly associated with Ludlow in Shropshire and Trim in Co. Meath. Four appendices shed more light on certain aspects of the de Lacys. Logaston has already published studies of the de Clare, Fitzalan and Mortimer families, three other great Marcher dynasties, and it is useful to have the Lacy contribution. Logaston Press, founded originally by Andy Johnson in , has a long history of producing fine books on a whole range of aspects of the history of the Welsh Marches. The imprint remains, but the press was taken over by Su and Richard Wheeler of the Fircone Press in , and long may it thrive. Under the Wheelers there has been an improvement in the quality of production, especially regarding the illustrations. Although a small family-run business, there are aspects of book production that need a closer eye. In this case it was the Bibliography, where references have been duplicated or appear in the incorrect order, and, dare I say it, the item written by the reviewer and cited in the very first end-note has been omitted!