According to the Chronicon Paschale, the Church of St Mary of Rhabdos, where the rod of Moses was kept, stood next to the gate.
A great Norman castle with a massive square keep stands within a 12-acre (5-hectare) enclosure formed by artificial ramparts of earth and a ditch, which is crossed by an ancient bridge.
The three-storey keep stands on a low mound of clay, similar to that making up the base of the rest of the castle, and is 45 feet high, 76 feet by 74 feet across, reinforced with protruding buttresses, and a tower on the south-eastern corner.
When Margaret and I first arrived, in January, I noticed that I kept getting stood up.
I tried to organize meetings with them, but I kept being stood up.
Keep your stand simple yet informative.
The ruins of Brougham Castle, with a 12th-century keep, stand on the site of a Roman fort 1.5 miles (2.5 km) to the southeast.
Huge Dunrobin Castle, near Golspie, must be seen, for its park, its falconry displays, and its original 13th-century keep, which stood abandoned for 200 years until it was integrated into the 17th-century French-chateau-style extension.
Especially when the EPA's kept researchers stand by ready to produce scare studies on EPA money (see box, p. 172).
Self-referential possession: I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk.
