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 | | castle -> The Early Castle The castle of W Europe was a Norman creation, an outgrowth of the 10th- and 11th-century mound castle, which consisted of a great artificial mound of earth, the motte, surrounded by a dry ditch, or fosse, and surmounted by a wooden blockhouse and its encircling palisade. |
 | | Fortified castles, of which one still exists at Himeji, were based on the European donjon and were erected on high bases formed of enormous stone blocks. |
 | | Leeds, Thomas Osborne, 1st duke of Leeds, Thomas Osborne, 1st duke of: see Danby, Thomas Osborne, earl of. |
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