An L-plan castle is a castle or tower house in the shape of an L, typically built from the 13th to the 17th century. This design is found quite frequently...

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in Aberdeenshire, Claypotts Castle in Dundee and Hatton Castle, Angus, Scotland. L-plan castle Reid, Stuart (2006). Castles and Tower Houses of the Scottish...

Lickleyhead Castle is a well-restored L-plan castle, dating from around 1600, a little south of Auchleven, by the banks of the Gadie Burn, in Aberdeenshire...

Dunderave Castle is an L-plan castle built in the 16th century as the Scottish seat of the MacNaughton clan. The castle lies on a small promontory on...

Cessford Castle is a large ruined mid-15th century L-plan castle near the village of Cessford, midway Jedburgh and Kelso, in the historic county of Roxburghshire...

facing in all directions, giving a very regular, almost square, floor plan to the castle. Some influence from crusader fortification has been conjectured,...

Solway Firth. The L-plan castle was the residence of the MacLellan family from whom it derived its name. The family sold the castle in 1752, and from...

as a storehouse for art. L-Tower remains empty. Tiergarten (two additional planned, not built) Hasenheide in Neukölln (planned, not built, had been built...

fire and siege weapons. Often, a palisade would be constructed around a castle as a temporary wall until a permanent stone wall could be erected. Both...

Wayback Machine, March 1963. Turnbull, Stephen (22 April 2008). Japanese Castles AD 250–1540. Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 9781846032530. Retrieved 2018-04-02 –...

A motte-and-bailey castle is a European fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised area of ground called a motte, accompanied by a...

A citadel is the most fortified area of a town or city. It may be a castle, fortress, or fortified center. The term is a diminutive of city, meaning "little...

obstacle defense made of metal angle beams or I-beams (that is, lengths with an L- or 𝐈-shaped cross section). It is similar in shape to metal knucklebones...

raised raths, sought to emulate the Norman example. Some L Plan Castles, such as Balingarry Castle in Ireland originated as ringforts. This theory is supported...

part of the current structure, an L Plan Castle, dates to the mid 15th century. The majority of the current castle dates to the 17th century. There was...

[ɡlasi]) in military engineering is an artificial slope as part of a medieval castle or in early modern fortresses. They may be constructed of earth as a temporary...

towers against Scottish raiders. Some peles were converted to castles, such as Penrith Castle. Some towers are now derelict while others have been converted...

called a demi-lune, after the lunette, the ravelin is placed outside a castle and opposite a fortification curtain wall. The ravelin is the oldest and...

Roman aqueduct or castellum aquae. It is the source of the English word "castle". Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary C. Julius Caesar...

or fortified gateway, such as at an outer defense perimeter of a city or castle, or any tower situated over a gate or bridge which was used for defensive...

or irregular in shape. The last blockhouse of this type was Cromwell's Castle, built in Scilly in 1651. Blockhouses were an ubiquitous feature in Malta's...

A water castle, sometimes water-castle, is a castle where natural or artificial water is part of its defences. It can be entirely surrounded by water-filled...

Cornish promontory forts can be found all along the coast of Penwith. Maen Castle, near to Land's End is one of the oldest, having been dated to around 500...

Slovak and Czech hrad ("castle" in the modern language), or hradisko/hradiště/hradec, which are terms for gord Slovene grad ("castle" in modern Slovene) Belarusian...

curtain wall. In particular, a medieval type of European castle is known as a motte-and-bailey. Castles and fortifications may have more than one bailey, and...

Gatehouse of Fleet; NX 589 560 Tap o' Noth, Aberdeenshire; NJ 484 293 Dunnideer Castle, Aberdeenshire Cowdenknowes, in Berwickshire; NT 585 370 For a long time...

Corbeille Leonard ("Leonard[o] basket") for the foundations of the San Marco Castle in Milan. The most common civil engineering use of gabions was refined and...

common feature of medieval fortifications. They were used extensively in castle defenses and military campaigns, particularly during the Renaissance and...

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