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What is the heavy iron gate called at the entrance of a castle?
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∙ 14y ago
If it drops it is called a portcullis.
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What is a main gate in a medieval castle?
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What is a medieval castle?
A castle is a fort. It was designed to be a place where people could stay in times of trouble. Typically it had a raised area called a motte, a curtain wall or palisade, and an open area within the wall called a bailey. Early castles were made of wood, and later ones made of stone. The stone castles usually had a large building called a keep, which often looked like a large tower. There was a gate house with a gate that could be easily defended. Often the castle was surrounded by a moat and getting to the gate meant crossing a drawbridge. The moat was often full of water. There is a link to an article on castles below.
What is the definition for gatehouse in the middle ages?
A gatehouse is a building at the gate of a castle or fortified town or city. It is intended to provide defense of the gate. It was often also used as a place where members of the garrison could sleep, so they could be called to defend more quickly. It often included mechanisms that could raise and lower a drawbridge or portcullises. In a castle it was usually the strongest position in the curtain wall.
How many people guard fort knox?
There are three entrance gates on Fort Knox. They are the Chaffee Gate, the Brandenburg Gate, and the Wilson Gate. Normally there are at least 2 guards in each gate shack. There are also Military Police as Fort Knox is a military post.
What is written on the gate at the entrance to Aushwitz?
Arbeit Macht Frei is written on the gates and literal translation would be work is liberating.
What was the strong entrance gate to a castle called?
The portcullis.
What is the definition of porticullises?
it means vertical sliding gate that protects a castle.
Is the castle and gate house that same thing?
The Gate House controls the entrance through the wall and into the castle. The castle is the name for the entire fortified building. The gate house, keep, chapel, wall (etc) are different parts of the castle.
Where is a gatehouse in a castle?
The gatehouse is the structure that defends the main gate, so the gatehouse is always at the entrance.
Which district is called the entrance gate of rajasthan?
Bharatpur.
Whats is an outer wall of a castle?
an Gate house is an entrance to the castle. An Drawbridge is an is a type of movable bridge to the castle a moat is a deep and bwide trenches usally filled with water
What is a wicket in a castle?
A castle would often have a large, heavily fortified gate. A smaller gate, sometimes with a grille, let into this large gate, was called a wicket.
What is the movable plank that controls the entrance to a castle door?
A portcullis is gate that drops in front of a Castle door. A drawbridge is a moveable structure that allows access across a moat to the Castle door.
What is a castle gatehouse?
Well, a gatehouse is a part of a castle that is heavily defended. The gate house includes a drawbridge and maybe murder holes. If attackers get in, defenders could shower them with rocks, red hot sand, or boiling water and oil through the muder holes in the ceiling. A heavy metal portcullis protected the gate house enterence
What is another name for entrance gates?
Other names for an entrance gate are: access gate entry gate
What do you call the spiked gate on a medieval castle?
it is called a portcullis
Can you give me a sentence for portcullis?
A portcullis is a heavy metal grate used as a gate. The guards raised the portcullis of the castle.
