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Castles from the Air

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CUP Archive, 1989 - Photography - 246 pages
Uses the aerial photography to reveal the medieval castles of Britain in their landscape setting.
  

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JSTOR: Castles from the Air.
R. ALLEN BROWN, Castles from the Air. (Cambridge Air Surveys.) Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. x, 246; frontispiece, map, ...
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Crenellating the Ego
Brown, R. Allen, 1989, Castles from the Air (Cambridge University Press) Coulson, Charles, 1979, 'Structural Symbolism in Medieval Castle Architecture' ...
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CASTLE STUDIES: RECENT PUBLICATIONS – 18 By John R. Kenyon ...
Gianazza, G. Castles from the air. London: Frances Lincoln, 2003. Gianazza, G. Châteaux forts: vus du ciel. Paris: Hazan, 2003. ...
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ORB Bibliographies: Castles
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TitleCastles from the Air
Cambridge Air Surveys
ContributorReginald Allen Brown
Editionillustrated
PublisherCUP Archive, 1989
ISBN0521329329, 9780521329323
Length246 pages
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