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Particularly large towers are often the strongest point of the castle: the keep or the bergfried. As the gate is always a vulnerable point of a castle, towers may be built near it to strengthen the defences at this point. In crusader castles, there is often a gate tower, with the gate passage leading through the base of the tower itself. In ...
A : Counterguard B : Couvreface (idealised graphic in which all accompanying works such as moats or glacis have been omitted) A couvreface in fortification architecture is a small outwork that was built in front of the actual fortress ditch before bastions or ravelins.
Two ravelins (top left of image) in Goes, The Netherlands Ravelin in the Dutch town of Bergen op Zoom Ravelin protecting the entrance of Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland The Moers fortifications, designed by Simon Stevin, where ravelins appear as triangular shapes surrounded by water, with wall (shown in dark green) facing outwards with no wall on the inner side.
A tower castle is a small castle that mainly consists of a fortified tower or a tower-like structure that is built on natural ground. It is thus different from the motte-and-bailey castle, which it may resemble, but whose main defensive structure is built on a motte or artificial hill. The tower castle is occasionally also described as a tower ...
Conical roofs are frequently found on top of towers in medieval town fortifications and castles, where they may either sit directly on the outer wall of the tower (sometimes projecting beyond it to form eaves) or form a superstructure above the fighting platform or terrace of the tower.
A keep is a strong central tower which normally forms the heart of a castle. Often the keep is the most defended area of a castle, and as such may form the main habitation area for a noble or lord, or contain important stores such as the armoury or the main well.
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The Tower of Hallbar in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. A tower house is a particular type of stone structure, built for defensive purposes as well as habitation. [1] Tower houses began to appear in the Middle Ages, especially in mountainous or limited access areas, to command and defend strategic points with reduced forces.