- An
embrasure (or
crenel or crenelle;
sometimes called gunhole in the
domain of gunpowder-era architecture) is the
opening in a
battlement between two raised...
-
Angus added gunloops for
artillery at
Tantallon Castle...
- Raglan's
gunloops were of an
early period,
later surp****ed in
other castles. More
recent explanations emphasise the
prestigious symbolism of
gunloops for the...
-
remains of an
earlier 16th- or 15th-century
tower house, with two rows of
gunloops for
early cannon still visible. A
smaller east wing, of the mid 16th century...
- windows, scroll-sided dormers, turrets, corbels, rope-moulded
stringing and
gunloops. It
underwent extensive restoration work
between 2002 and 2010, and again...
- Some
gunloops at
Blackness Castle date from Finnart's works...
- and had 39
firing positions on the
upper levels for artillery, with 31
gunloops in the ba****t for handguns. It cost the
Crown a
total of £27,092 to build...
-
machicolations and
eighteen gunloops: a high
number for a gateway, and
among the
earliest gunholes in Britain. The
gunloops would have been
added by the...
-
attached to each of two
diagonally opposite corners. Each
tower has two
gunloops,
preventing enemies from
approaching the walls. On the
first floor, the...
- iron grille, remains.
Guardrooms on
either side
overlook the p****age via
gunloops, and also on the
ground floor is a well, in the ba****t of the
round tower...
