A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 279
efences, and,while capable of holding out if the enemy shouldhave gained a lodgment in the courtyards orin other towens, is nuich less detached from therest of the work than would have been the caseat an earlier epoch. The system of defence in all these castles isthe same, however. Ariows, bolts… … Castle at Coca, near Segovu, Sp.\in; 15th Century. and tiiwer was purposely .slow. When one ofthese was mined or taken by escalade the littlegarrison would be cut to pieces before it couldescape to another part of the work. This faultwas remedied at a later period, and the castlesof the fourteenth…
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