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Title: Archaeologia cantiana
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Kent Archaeological Society. cn
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Publisher: (London) Kent Archaeological Society
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hcentury, and others in the fourteenth. The Inner Barbican occupied the first, or southern, island.It was approached by means of three drawbridges, correspondingwith the roads from Maidstone, Leeds, and Lenham respectively.Prom this Inner Barbican the present road of entrance passes overa stone bridge of two arches. While these arches are themselvescomparatively modern, the central pier between them, and their twoabutments north and south are the ancient supports of the originaldrawbridges. The northern abutment of the bridge stands on the second, orcentral, island, which is about 500 feet long, but less than 300 feetbroad. Here we see the Gatehouse,* with the Constables chamberover the gateway, and its guard-rooms on either side. One door-way of stone, in an upper room of this gatehouse, bears EarlyEnglish chamfer-stops of the time of Henry III., or even, it may * The gatehouse is now utilized for a lodge, stables, coach-houses, applelofts, and other rooms, Nos, 43 to 48 on the Plan,
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( 148 ) LEEDS CASTLE. BY CANON SCOTT ROBERTSON. Leeds Castle was one of the Royal residences, during more than250 years, in the Middle Ages. It often formed part of the dowersettled upon Englands Queens-consort; and several of them havedwelt within its walls. Its position was one of great strength, as it occupied three dis-tinct islands, and was approached by six or seven drawbridges.Permanent bridges have replaced them all, for sixty years or more,but the sites of those ancient drawbridges are marked on theannexed Plan. The Outer Barbican, now in ruins, contained the water-mill ofthe Castle, and stood upon the edge of the mainland. Several of itsmassive walls and arches remain, and are passed by every visitor whoenters the Castle. Those who approach from the Maidstone roadcan walk through the ruins. The date of their erection is proble-matical. Perhaps some portions of them were built in the thirteenthcentury, and others in the fourteenth. The Inner Barbican occupied the first, or so

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