Postern 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 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, Postern gate: A small secondary entrance, sometimes concealed, and usually at the rear of a castle. Used as a sally port for sorties, and as a route of escape. See sally port.

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

He had managed to coax old Brus, the gardener, into letting him have the key to the little postern gate on the plea that he wished to indulge in a midnight escapade, hinting broadly of a fair lady who was to be the partner of his adventure, and, ...

See also: Door, Postern, Ground, Castle, Church