Brickwork and Water Defenses: The Unfinished Brick Engineering of Kirby Muxloe Castle near Leicester Begun in 1480 and abandoned three years later at its patron’s sudden execution, Kirby Muxloe Castle in Leicestershire stands as one of the most revealing fragments in English architectural history. What was left unfinished is, paradoxically, […]
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Moated Earthworks of the West Midlands: Subsurface Hydraulics at Weoley Castle near Birmingham Standing in red sandstone ruin four miles southwest of Birmingham city centre, Weoley Castle preserves one of the English Midlands’ most instructive examples of a 13th-century moated manor. The earthworks here — a wide moat cut through […]
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