A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1845)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford : J. H. Parker · leaf 313
med for thepurpose in each jamb, and was usuallykept suspended above the gateway,but was let down whenever an attackwas apprehended: the principal en-trances of almost all fortresses wereprovided with several portcullises in n«nj -mni •■ rm,ii TTimwh.nnsuccession, at some little distance apart: the… … sometimes for a hay of an lisle, especi-ally if fitted up with SO Altar as a chapel. See Benthams Hist, of Ely, p. IS; andArcrueol., vol. xiii. pp. 2<)(), 308. h Mr. E..I. Willsou observes that it was sometimes called Sarrasin, probably fromits use bang learnt in the Crusades. 1 Tbe portcullis…
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