A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 189
e against Indians ^a kind of fort.It was built like a log cabin, but with an upperstory projecting several feet beyond the lowerone on eveiy side, for the purpose of bringingthe exterior at the ground within range of thedef-nders weapons through knipholcs in the:J10 BLOCKING floor, and preventing… … Block House near Kuerdschekhi, Asia Minor. Described by Petersen and v. Lusehan as very carefully builtof squared timbers and plunks, slmwintj. at the corners, theinterloekin^ construction chaiacferistic of Lycia. Thebuilding is raised on a mound of earth. of i)lanking, the space between the planks…
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