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This tower, inspired by a drawing by Viollet-Le-Duc, was probably used to guard a mountain pass.
In front of the door was a wooden fence. A machicolation defended this first door. To enter the tower, a staircase was climbed that led to the rampart's round path. This path was laterally located on the side of the face of the tower in which the door was drilled. A mobile bridge that fell from a corbel onto the wall's walkway by means of a winch placed in the machicolations stalk, allowed access to the tower containing several floors and an upper platform for defence and signals. These stations often have chimneys and even a furnace and well to fetch a spring, or a cistern dug into the rock to collect rainwater from the platform and plateau.
Source:
fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_raisonn%C3%A9_de_l%E2%80%99architecture_fran%C3%A7aise_du_XIe_au_XVIe_si%C3%A8cle/Tour
In front of the door was a wooden fence. A machicolation defended this first door. To enter the tower, a staircase was climbed that led to the rampart's round path. This path was laterally located on the side of the face of the tower in which the door was drilled. A mobile bridge that fell from a corbel onto the wall's walkway by means of a winch placed in the machicolations stalk, allowed access to the tower containing several floors and an upper platform for defence and signals. These stations often have chimneys and even a furnace and well to fetch a spring, or a cistern dug into the rock to collect rainwater from the platform and plateau.
Source:
fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_raisonn%C3%A9_de_l%E2%80%99architecture_fran%C3%A7aise_du_XIe_au_XVIe_si%C3%A8cle/Tour
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