A machicolation (French: mâchicoulis) is a floor opening between the supporting corbels of a battlement, through which stones or other material, such...
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two or three courses projecting over one another; those carrying the machicolations of English and French castles had four courses. In modern chimney construction...
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Kings of Desmond, and dates from 1446. The Blarney Stone is among the machicolations of the castle. The castle originally dates from before 1200, when a...
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Ross Castle (section Machicolation)
not be able to scale to those heights so larger windows were safe. Machicolations were stone structures at the top of the castle protruding out from the...
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Murder hole (section Murder holes and machicolations)
Boiling oil was rarely used because of its cost. Similar holes, called machicolations, were often located in the curtain walls of castles, fortified manor...
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included battlemented gateways, crow-stepped gables, pointed turrets and machicolations. The style was popular across Scotland and was applied to many relatively...
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access to the enclosure. Between the lintel of this gate and under a machicolation there was a painting of a lion, whose origin is unknown, although it...
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natural topography. Many were also inherited from the Fatimids like machicolations and round towers, while other techniques were developed simultaneously...
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gatehouses, and comprised several elements: crenellations, hoardings, machicolations, and loopholes. Crenellation is the collective name for alternating...
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Commons has media related to Portcullises. Drawbridge Hoarding (castles) Machicolation Sally port Yett Harper, Douglas. "portcullis". Online Etymology Dictionary...
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with a projecting wooden platform called a hoarding or brattice. Stone machicolations performed a similar function. The introduction of gunpowder made tall...
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massive circular bastions at intervals, with battlements, embrasures, machicolations and string courses. Four gates were provided on its four sides, one...
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of the invention of machicolations, which were an improvement on hoardings, not least because masonry is fire proof. Machicolations are also permanent...
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cone heads. The bastions flanking the gatehouse has arrow-loops and machicolation chutes through which boiling oil could be poured onto offending raiders...
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Castle of Capdepera, Mallorca, Spain Carcassonne, France Defensive walls Machicolation Friar, Stephen (2003). The Sutton Companion to Castles, Sutton Publishing...
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and a means of communication with other parts of the fortification. Machicolation: an overhanging projection supported by corbels, the floor of which...
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monolithic. The latter perception is reinforced by the fortress-style machicolation and corbeled cornice of the western Church of Entry into Jerusalem,...
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walkways on the inside, a crenellated parapet with merlons, and projecting machicolations from which missiles could be dropped on besiegers. The upper walls also...
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could not shoot at them from nearby walls, until the development of machicolation. In contrast, the bastion fortress was a very flat structure composed...
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Renaissance windows, the talking shield (a Galceran, a bush) and the machicolation over the main door. A building with a 4-sided roof, built in the 14th...
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Crusades—and more dangerous to attackers—witness the increasing use of machicolations and murder-holes, as well the preparation of hot or incendiary substances...
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Battlement (section Machicolations)
objects could be dropped onto attackers or besiegers; these are known as machicolations. Battlements have been used for thousands of years; the earliest known...
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and gates. Access to the bridge could be resisted with missiles from machicolations above or arrow slits in flanking towers. The bridge would be raised...
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limit the risk of fire. The keep had a conical roof slate over the machicolation. It also had a well and a large tank for supporting long sieges, as...
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jettying is rarely used. See for example 945 Madison Avenue in New York. Machicolation Overhang (architecture) Corbels, brackets that may be under a jetty...
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fortification; it was also one of the earliest European castles to use machicolations. The castle consists of three enclosures separated by dry moats, with...
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be resupplied from the sea. It retains the earliest surviving stone machicolations in Britain and what historian Jeremy Ashbee has described as the "best...
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included such apparently anachronistic features as a drawbridge and machicolation, which were still common in military architecture of the period. In...
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multiple watchtowers, the art of the main gate itself. With a wall with no machicolations to fire at the enemy and no fortifications, Malang Gad is one of the...
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chamber within the south wall which overlooks both hall and courtyard. A machicolation below the hall's north window allows objects to be dropped onto attackers...
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