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Architecture Post modernPostern gate

Postern Gate - A side or less important gate into a castle; usually for peacetime use by pedestrians
Prow - Acute-angled projection.
Puddled - Made waterproof.

 


Postern
A secondary door.
Potsherd or Potshard
A fragment of broken pottery that has been discarded by an earlier civilisation.

Postern Gate: a secondary gate or door often located at the rear of the castle.
Putlog Hole: a hole intentionally left in the surface of a wall for insertion of a horizontal pole
Ram: battering ram ...

postern - a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle
tailboard, tailgate - a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading
tail gate - a gate downstream from a lock or canal that is used to control the flow of water at the lower end ...

Postern
small doorway useful for entering or leaving a castle after the main gates had been closed
Put-log ...

Postern tower: A tower which was used to defend as well as sometimes incorporating the postern gate. See postern.
Precinct: The space enclosed by fortified walls. See bailey, enceinte.

Sally-port - A postern gate or passage underground from the inner to the outer works of a fortification.
Sally-port mycenae
Saḷmonica - Spanish term for solomonic column, much used in Spanish Baroque architecture.

Postern - a small secondary doorway in a tower or curtain wall, usually for peacetime use by pedestrians.
Postern Gate - a side or less important gate into a castle; usually for peacetime use by pedestrians.
Prow - acute-angled projection.

Upright support in a structure.PosternSmall gateway at the back of a building, especially a castle or gatehouse, or to the side of a larger entrance door or gate.Postmodernism ...

At Pevensey (Anderida) a small postern on the north side of the Roman walls was laid bare in 1906-1907, in which the passage curves in the thickness of the wall, and from a width admitting two men abreast narrows so that one alone could block it.

See also: Door, Castle, House, Frame, Ground