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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.
Holmes' Castle On August 11, 1895, Joseph Pulitzer's The World published a fictional floor plan of Holmes' "Murder Castle" with (left to right and top to bottom): a vault, a crematorium, a trapdoor in the floor, and a quicklime grave with bones. Holmes moved to Chicago in August 1886, which is when he began using the pseudonym "H. H. Holmes". [18]
Machicolations, hoardings, bretèches, and murder holes are all similar defensive features serving the same purpose: to enable defenders atop a defensive structure to target attackers below. The design allowed defenders to remain behind cover rather than being exposed by leaning over a parapet.
Above the entrance passage is an arch in the gateway, although it leads nowhere. The ceiling of the passage through the gatehouse into the castle is vaulted and pierced with murder holes. [55] Murder holes were most likely used to drop objects on attackers, similar to machicolations, or to pour water to extinguish fires. [56]
A gatehouse is a type of fortified gateway, an entry control point building, enclosing or accompanying a gateway for a town, religious house, castle, manor house, or other fortification building of importance. Gatehouses are typically the most heavily armed section of a fortification, to compensate for being structurally the weakest and the ...
It extended for 137 metres (450 ft), and along its length were murder-holes which allowed defenders to shower attackers with missiles. [69] Anyone going straight ahead rather than following the hairpin turn would emerge in the area between the castle's two circuits of walls. To access the inner ward, the passage had to be followed round. [70]
Instead of solving crime, it looks like Castle’s Stana Katic might be committing crime in Tuesday’s Murder in a Small Town. Katic guest-stars in Episode 3 of the Fox crime procedural as Zoe ...
The castle has an enceinte whose crenellation was leveled in the 1940s. Two quadrangular towers added obliquely to the corners of the enceinte on the ramparts are dated to the 13th or 14th century. The rectangular châtelet , defended by a bretèche and hoardings, is pierced by a door with a portcullis and murder hole giving access to the court ...