English Coast Defences From Roman Times to the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century

In the following account of the more important of the castles which in mediaeval times guarded the coast, it has been found convenient to include a notice of those walled towns...

Round the coast of England there are many prehistoric earthworks of great extent and strength. These fall generally under the heads of hill-top fortresses and promontory camps....

The scope of the present volume is to review the defensive works which have been carried out in various ages for the protection of our shores against incursions of enemies: the...

During the reign of Henry VIII an interesting group of castles, or more properly blockhouses, intended entirely for coast defence, was erected on the coasts of Kent and Sussex....

With the settlement of the Saxons, the Angles, and the Jutes in England, this book has no immediate concern, but it is worthy of note that having driven the British people westw...