medieval fortifications
Moats and ramparts
Medieval fortifications are the defensive structures built during the Middle Ages—castles, walls, moats, towers, and gates designed to protect settlements and military positions from attack.
The term encompasses both individual features The castle's medieval fortifications included a drawbridge and portcullis and entire defensive systems.
These structures defined the military architecture of roughly the 5th through 15th centuries in Europe and the Middle East.
- murder holesFortification ceiling openings for attack
- boiling oilHeated fat for warfare
- castleFortified medieval residence
- castle keepFortified main tower
- battlementsNotched defensive wall top
ramparts · barbicans · Tower of London · citadel · drawbridge · palisades · walled city · siege warfare · arrow slits · ditches · crenellations · curtain walls · stone walls · postern · keeps · donjon · hoardings · portcullises
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- Medieval CairoCitadel, Saladin, Mamluks, gates, city walls
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Machines for attacking fortifications
battering rams · trebuchets · siege towers · catapults · siege engines
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Improvised defensive military structures