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.
Other types of vaults: net vault, barrel, groin, quadripartite, sexpartite Fascine: Huge bundle of brushwood for revetting ramparts or filling in ditches.
Ditch - an excavation in front of a rampart which presents an obstacle to the attackers and provides excavated material which can be used in construction of ramparts. Commonly referred to as a "moat." ...
A number of different types of ramparts have been employed, generally they surrounded a fortification and were usually topped by a parapet.
Fascine - huge bundle of brushwood for revetting ramparts or filling in ditches.
Fausse Braye - low rampart in the ditch, in front of the main fortification.
Exterior view of cloister
Exterior view #1 of ramparts
Exterior view #2 of ramparts
Exterior view of south portal ...
In 827 the city was refortified with ramparts and walls built in the Byzantine style.
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: Rampart, Courtyard, Ground, Church, Principal
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