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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.
There are window seats in large upper floor windows which still allow for a great view. There are two murder-holes, one between the ground and first floor, the second between the first and second floor. [21] A wall walk ran on top of the castle. The staircase is mural, starting left of the entrance door and running clockwise in the walls.
The castle is open to the public, having been partially restored, and displays objects relating to the Crusades, the Normans, and medieval monks. Some the features of the castle that are on view are its dungeon, murder-hole, effigies and oratory. [3] The castle is a National Monument, in state care, number 516. [6]
Castle, regarded with disdain by teams from central and northern Indiana, slayed Carmel in the semistate, and then Hobart, in the 1982 Class 3A (then the largest class) state championship game.
One was released from prison in 2018 after serving most of a 20-year sentence, one is incarcerated at Michigan City's Indiana State Prison for the rest of his life and one died behind bars in 2019.
It took two years to arrest 28-year-old Kevin Mason in Indiana on a murder warrant ... Mason had been charged with second-degree murder in connection with a shooting in June 2021 in the ...
The earliest part of the castle is the four-storey tower. [4] The ground and third floors have vaulted ceilings, with Irish crenelations on the parapet, from which there are views of Bannow Bay and Waterford Harbour, important for defence. The entrance doorway is protected by a machicolation and murder-hole.
Machicolation, hoarding, bretèche, and murder holes are all similar defensive features serving the same purpose, that is to enable defenders atop a defensive structure to target attackers below. The primary benefit of the design allowed defenders to remain behind cover rather than being exposed when leaning over the parapet.