A gallery projecting on brackets and built on the outside of castle towers and walls,with openings in the floor through which to drop molten lead, boiling oil, and missiles.

Home of the owner of a fief without license to build a castle with towers and keep.

Part of a battlement, the square "sawtooth" between crenels.

Arrow loop, slit in battlement or wall to permit firing of arrows or for observation.

Ditch sometimes filled with water surrounding the castle.

Small bracket, sometimes scrolled, sometimes clock-like, set at regular intervals in the soffit of a cornice.

Small external bastions situated in the moat and joined to the scarp.

Large room where the monks slept.

An earthwork mound on which a castle was built .

Painting on the internal walls of a building.