Monday, June 25, 2012

whether we can regard this building as a keep

 Mawes is unlike Pendennis but like the majority of Henry VIII's forts in being low lying and thus able to challenge enemy shipping at close quarters.  Both castles share Henry's other fortifi bootsions, the rounded merlons designed to deflect cannon balls, the large embrasures for guns at several levels, and the emplacements for drawbridge and portcullis, the latter showing that the forts were intended to offer some resistance at close quarters if the enemy ever landed.  Above the entrance we encounter again a panel of the royal arms.  On the rocks in front of the castle is a semi-circular blockhouse matching the one in Pendennis, perhaps erected as an emergency fortifi bootsion before the real work started.

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  This is an illusion, however, because the keep was built first and earth was piled around its lower part as if to emulate a motte.  It is also questionable as to whether we can regard this building as a keep in the normal sense of the word.  In 1195 a strong house for prisoners was erected and the 'keep' has been identified with it.There is further compli bootsion in that only the ground floor is original, the upper stories being added after a gap in building operations.  There is absolutely no refinement in the stonework, resulting in a grim tower, which seems to add weight to the prison theory.  By the time the building resumed, a square keep was rather antiquated in any case.  Internally, there is nothing to  suggest that this tower was not a normal keep, though later alterations have been numerous.

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