Description and condition:

Brown boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 500pp, index, b/w illustrations.

Good or better copy with lightly bumped corners, internally with nice bright clean pages. In similar dustcover, now protected.

Contents:

The book lists, classifies, positions and describes in non-technical language well over 500 Northumbrian strongholds built after the Norman Conquest. 'The author looks behind those stone walls and introduces his readers to the families he finds their. It is what they did with their lives, what kept them going against intolerable odds and how they developed through the ages which lifts this work out of the ordinary.