A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 274
he defences, and,while capable of holding out if the enemy shouldhave gained a lodgment in tiie courtyards orill other towers, is inuch less detached from therest of the work than would have been the caseat an earlier epocii. Tlie system of defence in all these castles isthe same, however. Arrows,… … Casti.k at Coca, near Skc.ovia, Spain; 15th Century. and tower was purposely slow. When one ofthese was mined or taken by escalade the littlegarrison would be cut to jiieces before it couldescape to another part of the work. This faultwas remedied at a later jjeriod, and the castlesof the…
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