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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 ...
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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 ...
Craigievar Castle, Aberdeenshire. This is a list of castles in Scotland. A castle is a type of fortified structure built primarily during the Middle Ages. Scholars debate the scope of the word "castle", but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble.
The Z-plan castle has a strong central rectangular tower with smaller towers attached at diagonally opposite corners. [ 1 ] Prominent examples of the Z-plan include Brodie Castle in Moray , Castle Menzies in Perthshire , [ 2 ] Glenbuchat Castle in Aberdeenshire , [ 3 ] Castle Fraser in Aberdeenshire, Claypotts Castle in Dundee [ 4 ] and Hatton ...
Sterckshof is about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) east of Antwerp city centre. [1] It is situated at an altitude of 3 metres (9.8 ft) above sea level. [2] From as early as the 13th century the site of the castle was occupied by the fortified "Hooftvunder" farmhouse, surrounded by a moat.