Sentences with bailey
bai·ley
B b - Founded by William the Conqueror, the fine motte and bailey castle was popular with medieval monarchs, some of whom used it as a royal hunting lodge.
- Soldiers and staff watched from windows, doors, and battlements as we passed from bailey to bailey until we reached the courtyard around the huge central keep.
- The Saxon Kingdom was divided up parcels of land that rather than a burh at its centre had Motte and bailey castles erected.
- Richard also had dirt packed around the outside base of the bailey wall.
- The second main phase of use began immediately after the Norman conquest when William I constructed a motte and bailey castle in the middle of the earlier hillfort.
- Robert threw himself energetically into building a complex polygonal motte and bailey fortress out of wood there.
- Parts of the outer bailey may also lie buried under the town.
- This was just past the junction of the inner bailey wall with the eastern wall of the outer bailey wall.
- Motte and bailey castles appeared in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
- The bailey and battlements were dotted with small fires, and men stood around them, more for something to do than for warmth.
- This layout suggest the presence on the site of a formerly old castle of the motte-and bailey type, the curtains of the upper ward forms a sloping stone revetment of the motte.
- The motte was an earthen mound, conical in shape and the bailey was a level area around the motte, both of which would have had a wooden stockade surrounding.
- Swan Yard used to be the Market Square when it was the outer bailey of Devizes Castle and as well as shops we want to have cafes and public spaces for people sit, eat and chat.
- The bailey wall was a high wall with a steep face that was originally made of earth.
- Now you are in the bailey and exposed to arrow fire from the thickly walled structures within.
- As if they were but marionettes, they all marched amiably into the dank corridors beneath the garrison at the castle's bailey wall.
- William built a motte and bailey castle on Pevensey Bay and held a feast to celebrate the Normans' safe arrival.
- Even with the bailey wall between the people and the demons and undead outside, they still kept their distance.
- From the thinning mist, Sibyl watched as the serfs outside the outer bailey plowed the acres of harvest-ready grain and whatnot.
- The outer bailey wall probably dates from 1223.
- Similarly, the White Tower, at that time outside London, was wrapped with a stone bailey wall in 1270-1300 and then by a second one immediately afterward.