FOSSE: A ditch. GALLEY: A long passage or room. HALL: The principal room in the keep, used for receiving guests and for a major entertainments.
Fosse: Ditch. Freestone: High quality sand- or lime-stone. Fresco: Painting on wet plaster wall. G Gable: Wall covering end of roof ridge. Gallery: An upper story over the aisle which opens onto the nave or choir.
Foss, Fossa, Fossae, Fosse: (1) A ditch, moat, canal or pit, which were used to impede the advance of an enemy force. See ditch.
FormworkTemporary framing of timber or metal used for casting concrete; also called shuttering.FosseA defensive ditch.Four-centred arch ...
Nevertheless each castle would be composed of a number of common features which could include a rock-cut fosse or ditch, a glacis or stone revetment and one or more sets of curtain wall linked by towers, with possibly a keep in the middle.
Fortalice - small fort or outworks of a fortification. Fosse - ditch. Freestone - high quality sandstone or limestone. Fresco - painting on wet plaster wall. Frieze - a horizontal band of ornament. ...
See also: Architecture, Tower, Curtain wall, Medieval, Principal
 
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