A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 148
op of the wall.seems to havetaken a large sharein the anvangc-ments for defence,and in the castles of Europe, from the thirteenth(•(•ntmy on, an elaborate system of wooden out-side galleries was u.sed, which galleries were ]mtinto place when a siege was feared, or in somecases seem to have remained… … BATTLEJIENT FR05I THE GAR-DEN Wall of a House in THE CaLLE del BaGATIN, Vk.nke. BATTLE STONE for the discharge of missiles Yertieally dnwu-ward. (See Machieolatiou.) B. One of the merlons, or such a merlonwith its adjoining crenel, in a battlement in thesense A, above. This use, though not…
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