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Murder holes at Bodiam Castle. A murder hole or meurtrière is a hole in the ceiling of a gateway or passageway in a fortification through which the defenders could shoot, throw or pour harmful substances or objects such as rocks, arrows, scalding water, hot sand, quicklime, or boiling oil, down on attackers.
Machicolations were more common in French castles than English, where they are usually restricted to the gateway, as in the 13th-century Conwy Castle. [5] Within France, machicolation is more common on southern castles. One of the oldest extant examples of machicolation in northern France is at Château de Farcheville which was built from 1290 ...
Glimmingehus is a medieval era castle located at Simrishamn ... 'murder-holes' for pouring boiling pitch ... The lower part of the castle's stone walls are 2.4 meters ...
Beaumaris Castle in Wales was built in the late 13th century and is an example of concentric castles which developed in the late medieval period. Badajoz Castle of Topoľčany in Slovakia Medieval fortification refers to medieval military methods that cover the development of fortification construction and use in Europe , roughly from the fall ...
Reconstructed wooden hoarding around the Cité de Carcassonne, France. A hoard or hoarding was a temporary wooden shed-like construction on the exterior of a castle during a siege that enabled the defenders to improve their field of fire along the length of a wall and, most particularly, directly downwards towards the bottom of the wall. [1]
The 10-week dig, part of a city regeneration project that began in April, starts at the newest redevelopments of the castle site, according to an April 12 news release from Wessex Archaeology ...
The group’s “most surprising” find was a 6-inch stone penis that was found buried in one of the layers of ruins, archaeologists said in a news release. Phallic symbolism isn’t common in ...
The castle is approximately 20 metres high and follows the general pattern of tower houses: stone-built, essentially defensive and comprising a series of superimposed chambers. The original spiral staircase and one of the original roof beams dating from 1280 can still be seen today as an exposed beam in 'the lounge' restaurant.