Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 141
swere simply platforms surrounded with a crenulated parapet and raisedupon pillars (Fig. 89) ; in the larger ones, the towers were constructed ofseveral stories added to the normal elevation of the poop and prow.Mangonels, catapults, and other projectile machines were placed on thesetowers and… … Fig. 90.—Seal of the Town of Boston (1575), on which the hune is depicted at the extremity of the mast. immense balk of timber, which was worked vertically from the top of themast in order to shatter and sink a smaller craft. Around the masts, too, andnearly at their tops, chdtelcts or platforms…
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