Ramparts are the old city walls built to protect the inhabitants from attack. They can be built of stone, brick, wood, or pise (baked clay) and can have round or square towers at intervals that serve as barracks, granaries, or arsenals.
Rampart - A stone or earth wall surrounding a castle, fortress, or fortified city for defence purposes.
Ramping arches - Arches which are made asymmetrically to follow the ramp of a staircase.
Rampart - Defensive stone or earth wall surrounding castle.
Rath - Low, circular ringwork.
Ravelin - Outwork with two faces forming a salient angle; like in a star-shaped fort.
rampart : A defensive stone or earth wall surrounding castle or town.
redundant : that has become useless
relief : Moldings and ornamentation projecting from the surface of a wall.
Rampart
- a thick wall behind the ditch, of earth, stone etc which is the main defensive wall of a fortification.
Rampart: An enbankment of earth which was used for the purpose of defence, excavated from the ditch, and either raised on the inside or outside of the ditch.
n (on rampart, of bridge) → Brüstung f; (of well) → (Brunnen)wand f; to put one's head above the parapet (fig) → sich in die Schusslinie begeben; to keep one's head below the parapet (fig) → sich bedeckt halten ...
(a) a wall or rampart to protect soldiers; (b) a low wall or railing built for the safety of people at the edge of a balcony, roof, or other steep place.
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Other types of vaults: net vault, barrel, groin, quadripartite, sexpartite Fascine: Huge bundle of brushwood for revetting ramparts or filling in ditches.
bastion a projecting part of a rampart or other fortification; in landscape gardening, a bastion is a projecting section of the ha-ha.
vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wdg or wkh), a solid structure of stone, brick or other material, used as a defensive, protecting, enclosing or dividing fence, or as the enclosing and supporting sides of a building, ...
Terreplein(French, lit. earth-filled): In a fort, the level surface of a rampart behind a parapet for mounting guns.Tessellated pavementMosaic flooring, particularly Roman, made of tesserae, i.e. small cubes of glass, stone or brick.
1926: Ellen Mower Home, 12 The Rampart, Castlecrag, New South Wales
1926: Creswick Home, Castlecrag, Sydney, New South Wales
1927: S.R. Salter Residence (Knitlock construction), Toorak, Victoria, Australia
1927: Vaughan Griffin Home, 52 Darebin St.
In fortification, a banquette is a little foot path or elevated step along the inside of a rampart or parapet, by which the musketeers get up to view the counterscarp, or to fire on the enemies in the moat.
Exterior view of cloister
Exterior view #1 of ramparts
Exterior view #2 of ramparts
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In 827 the city was refortified with ramparts and walls built in the Byzantine style.
a usage for the decorative adaptation of the alternating merlons and embrasures on the parapet or breastwork of a rampart walk.
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In military architecture, an angular and pointed projection, often diamond-shaped and usually located at a corner, that enabled gunners to defend the ramparts and curtains of a fortification.
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 See also: Architecture, Frame, Masonry, House, Principal
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