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  2. Fortified tower - Wikipedia

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    Corner towers enfilade the two adjoining wall faces. If corner towers are far apart, additional flanking towers may be added between them. Towers in an outer curtain wall are often open at the back. 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 ...

  3. Tower houses in Britain and Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Tower houses are often called castles, and despite their characteristic compact footprint size, they are formidable habitations and there is no clear distinction between a castle and a tower house. In Scotland a classification system has been widely accepted based on ground plan, such as the L-plan castle style, one example being the original ...

  4. Medieval fortification - Wikipedia

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    There was a tower on top of the motte. In most cases, the tower was made of timber, though some were also made of stones. Stone towers were found in natural mounds, as artificial ones were not strong enough to support stone towers. Larger mottes had towers with many rooms, including the great hall. Smaller ones had only a watch tower.

  5. Tower castle - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Flanking tower - Wikipedia

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    Flanking towers of Château de Coucy Flanking towers of Giebichenstein Castle. A flanking tower is a fortified tower that is sited on the outside of a defensive wall or other fortified structure and thus forms a flank.

  7. List of castles in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The current plan calls for four towers with a keep, but so far only the first two towers have been completed. Freeman partially modeled the castle on Castell Coch in Tongwynlais, Wales. Castle Gwynn was featured in Taylor Swift's music video for "Love Story". [21] Castle La Crosse (La Crosse, Wisconsin) designed for Lumber Baron N.B. Holway in ...

  8. Bergfried - Wikipedia

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    The retinue of a besieged castle usually consisted of only a few able-bodied men. If the siege was foreseen, the castle's peacetime complement of three to twenty men could be doubled or tripled. And in an emergency, at least the higher ranks could take refuge in the main tower. A castle was only regarded as conquered when the bergfried had fallen.

  9. Half tower - Wikipedia

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    Half tower in the town walls of Freiburg im Üechtland The Porte d'Orange in Carpentras, a town gate built as a half tower. A half tower (sometimes half-tower), open tower, [1] or open-gorged tower [2] (German: Schalenturm, Halbschalenturm or Schanzturm) is a fortified stone tower in an external wall or castle enceinte that is open, or only lightly constructed, at the rear.