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the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress

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While one of the words most commonly identified with castles is `keep', the term is virtually unknown in medieval documentation where the term donjon was generally used.
The donjon was located on the podium of the former Roman temple of Claudius, also the site of a Late Saxon villa regalis.
Castles, lordship and settlement in Norman England and Wales: O.H. Creighton examines the many and varied reasons behind the siting of Norman castles, and considers their decisive effect on the cultural landscape of Britain
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