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City gates were traditionally built to provide a point of controlled access to and departure from a walled city for people, vehicles, goods and animals. Depending on their historical context they filled functions relating to defense, security, health, trade, taxation, and representation, and were correspondingly staffed by military or municipal ...
Conwy's town walls are a medieval defensive structure around the town of Conwy in Wales. The walls were constructed between 1283 and 1287 after the foundation of Conwy by Edward I, and were designed to form an integrated system of defence alongside Conwy Castle. The walls are 1.3 km (0.81 mi) long and include 21 towers and three gatehouses. The ...
Engineering or Construction vehicles are heavy-duty vehicles, specially designed for executing construction (Civil engineering) tasks, most frequently, ones involving earth moving. Listed here are articles about the engineering vehicles themselves, their tools and their systems. Also notable manufacturers are listed.
The Tower Hill Postern was a small fortified entrance at the eastern terminal point to the London Wall, at the junction of the Wall and the Tower of London moat. In the early 17th century the City and the Crown contested ownership of the postern as part of a Tower boundary dispute. [ 14 ]
Model of Worcester city walls as they were in 1250, viewed from the north, based on archaeological and historical data available in 2000. Model of Caernarfon showing the town walls and Caernarfon Castle (right) shortly after their completion in the 13th century, as viewed from the west Model of Conwy showing the town walls and Conwy Castle (right) after completion in the 13th century This list ...
Travelers wishing to plan a journey could consult an itinerarium, which in its most basic form was a simple list of cities and towns along a given road and the distances between them. [21] It was only a short step from lists to a master list, or a schematic route-planner in which roads and their branches were represented more or less in ...
A cabriolet on wet, slippery London cobblestones in 1823.. During the medieval period, cobblestone streets became common in many European towns and cities.Cobblestones were readily available, as they were often naturally occurring stones found in riverbeds and fields.
The latter two gates were certainly built by the 1120s, and it is thought that the medieval circuit of the walls was complete by 1162. They then consisted of the curtain wall itself, gates, towers and a ditch. [4] [11] The Saxon ditch has been filled in, and the medieval ditches were dug further from the walls. The earlier ditch had been ...