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alterations ashlar barbican barrel vault brick buildings buttresses Caen stone Canon's Gate Carausius carried Castle Hill Channel Chapel circa Classis Britannica Colton Tower Constable's Gate covered Curtain Wall defences Dover Castle drawbridge Eadmer earthwork east wall embrasures enclosure entrance erected feet fireplaces were inserted flint rubble forebuilding fortress groined vaults harbour Harold's hostile siege engines inner ward jambs John's Tower Keep King's Gate later lower vestibule masonry medieval modern moulded narrow loops nave Norman Conquest northern outwork occupied outer wall outer ward Palace Gate parapet passage leading Peverell's Tower pharos or lighthouse Portchester probably record rectangular Richborough river Dour Road Roman lighthouse Roman Pharos roof rooms Saxon shore second floor small vaulted chamber Society of Antiquaries south wall spur stiff foliated capitals stopped and chamfered storey structure thirteenth century thirteenth-century curtain tion Tower Copyright town traced upper vestibule wide splayed William the Conqueror