Barmkin the small walled yard attached to a pele tower (generally Scottish) Barrel Vault ...
Barbkin, Barmkin: (1) A walled enclosure surrounding a pele tower. (2) The courtyard attached to a tower house. See peel tower, pele tower, tower house. Barquette: See barbette.
Also called Salomonic or Solomonic columns, after columns in Rome supposed to have come from Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem.Barmkin(Scots): Wall enclosing courtyard attached to a tower house.Baroque ...
See also: Courtyard, House, Vault, Tower, Bartizan
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