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Architectural elements > Machicolations

Preferred term

Machicolations

Definition(s)

Projecting series of corbels often surmounting the walls of later Medieval fortifications and carrying an overhanging portion of the stone floor of the rampart; also, openings in the floor between the corbels for delivery of missiles on the enemy below [AAT]

Broader concept(s)

Architectural elements

Related concept(s)

Fortifications

Synonym(s)

Galleries, machicolations
Overhangs, machicolations

Notation

117699

In other languages

Hourd

French

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-DX0X9W3N-X

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