hoarding
The use of covered wooden galleries (or hoards) erected on upper walls of a castle for defensive purposes. See also battlement,machicolation
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Hoarding - Upper wooden stories on a stone castle wall; the living area; sometimes, a temporary wooden balcony suspended from the tops of walls from which missiles could be dropped.
Hoarding: covered wooden gallery affixed to the top of the outside of a tower or curtain to defend the castle
Inner Ward or Inner Bailey: open area in the center of a castle
Keep: the inner stronghold of the castle ...
Hoarding or Brattice
covered wooden gallery with holes in the floor, which was attached to the top of the external wall of a stone castle so that defenders could see and fire upon assailants at the base of the wall. Also spelt hourding.
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Hoard, Hoarding, Hourd: A covered wooden gallery built out from the parapet of a tower or curtain wall supported on corbels, providing for vertical defence of the area below thus reducing the amount of dead ground.
Brattice: Timber tower or projecting wooden gallery; hoarding. Breastwork: Heavy parapet slung between two gate towers; defense work over the portcullis. Bressumer: Beam to support a projection.
The openings in the floor of a projecting stone gallery - a stone version of timber hoarding or breteche.
Mail or chain mail - flexible armour made of interlocking metal rings.
Two massive towers flanked the actual entrance and were linked across by an iron chain; over the entrance (E) was a machicolation, further added to in time of war by a hoarding of timber; ...
- advertisements can take many forms, awnings, blinds, hanging signs, hoardings, placards etc - all have an impact on their surroundings.
A hoarding is a similar structure made of wood, usually temporarily constructed in the event of a siege. One advantage of the machicolation over wooden hoarding is protection behind stone battlements, as well as being fire proof.
 See also: Castle, Machicolation, Floor, Timber, Medieval
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