A report on Castle and Battlement

Dating back to the early 12th century, the Alcázar of Segovia is one of the most distinctive castles in Europe.
Battlements on the Great Wall of China
Built in 1385, Bodiam Castle in East Sussex, England, is surrounded by a water-filled moat.
Decorative battlements in Persepolis
The Norman White Tower, the keep of the Tower of London, exemplifies all uses of a castle including city defence, a residence, and a place of refuge in times of crisis.
Drawing of battlements on a tower
Windsor Castle in England was founded as a fortification during the Norman Conquest and today is one of the principal official residences of Queen Elizabeth II.
Battlement in the coat of arms of Seinäjoki in Finland
Baba Vida medieval castle build on the banks of the Danube in Vidin, Bulgaria
9th-century BC relief of an Assyrian attack on a walled town with zig-zag shaped battlements
São Jorge Castle in Lisbon, Portugal, with a bridge over a moat
Battlements of the Tower of David in Jerusalem, dating from the Mamluk and Ottoman eras in Palestine.
The wooden palisades on top of mottes were often later replaced with stone, as in this example at Château de Gisors in France.
Gradara Castle, Italy, outer walls 13th-14th century, showing on the tower curved v-shaped notches in the merlons
A courtyard of the 14th-century Raseborg Castle in Finland
Rohtas Fort, Pakistan
The 14th-century keep of Château de Vincennes near Paris towers above the castle's curtain wall. The wall exhibits features common to castle architecture: a gatehouse, corner towers, and machicolations.
Idrakpur Fort, Bangladesh
Beaumaris Castle in Anglesey, North Wales, with curtain walls between the lower outer towers, and higher inner curtain walls between the higher inner towers.
Taghmon Church in County Westmeath, Ireland, with Irish crenellations
A 13th-century gatehouse in the château de Châteaubriant, France. It connects the upper ward to the lower one.
Caerlaverock Castle in Scotland is surrounded by a moat.
Daorson, Bosnia, built around a prehistoric central fortified settlement or acropolis (existed there cca. 17/16th c. to the end of the Bronze Age, cca. 9/8th c. BCE), surrounded by cyclopean walls (similar to Mycenae) dated to the 4th c. BCE.
Borġ in-Nadur fort in Malta, built during the Tarxien phase and used until the Bronze Age.
The Bayeux Tapestry contains one of the earliest representations of a castle. It depicts attackers of the Château de Dinan in France using fire, a major threat to wooden castles.
Built in 1138, Castle Rising in Norfolk, England is an example of an elaborate donjon.
Albarrana tower in Paderne Castle, Portugal
The gatehouse to the inner ward of Beeston Castle in Cheshire, England, was built in the 1220s, and has an entrance between two D-shaped towers.
Krak des Chevaliers in Syria is a concentric castle built with both rectangular and rounded towers. It is one of the best-preserved Crusader castles.
The design of Edward I's Harlech Castle (built in the 1280s) in North Wales was influenced by his experience of the Crusades.
The northern walls of the Gran Castello in Gozo, Malta, were built in the 15th century.
Corvin Castle in Transylvania (built between 1446 and 1480) was one of the biggest in Eastern Europe at that time.
Castle De Haar, Utrecht, Netherlands.
The angled bastion, as used in Copertino Castle in Italy, was developed around 1500. First used in Italy, it allowed the evolution of artillery forts that eventually took over the military role of castles.
Neuschwanstein is a 19th-century historicist (neoromanesque) castle built by Ludwig II of Bavaria, inspired by the romanticism of the time.
Castello Dei Baroni, a country residence in Wardija, Malta, designed with castle-like features.
A 19th-century depiction by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc of the construction of the large tower at Coucy Castle in France, with scaffolding and masons at work. The putlog holes mark the position of the scaffolding in earlier stages of construction. The tower was blown up in 1917.
Experimental archeology castle building at Guédelon Castle site in France (2015).
God Speed! by Edmund Blair Leighton, 1900: a late Victorian view of a lady giving a favour to a knight about to do battle.
Highland castles such as Château de Montségur in southern France have become the popular idea of where castles should be found because they are photogenic, where in reality castles were built in a variety of places due to a range of considerations.
Srebrenik Fortress in Srebrenik, Bosnia: inaccessibility of location with only a narrow bridge traversing deep canyon provides excellent protection.
Almourol Castle in Portugal, which stands on a small islet in the Tejo River.
Tavastia Castle in Hämeenlinna, Finland, one of the northernmost castles in Europe. The exact date of construction of the castle is unclear, as far as it is known to have been built in the late 13th century, but the first mention of it in contemporary documents is from 1308. It was built close to Lake Vanajavesi.
An early 13th-century drawing by Matthew Paris showing contemporary warfare, including the use of castles (here Lincoln Castle), crossbowmen and mounted knights.
A reconstructed trebuchet at Château des Baux in Bouches-du-Rhône in the south of France.

A battlement in defensive architecture, such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet (i.e., a defensive low wall between chest-height and head-height), in which gaps or indentations, which are often rectangular, occur at intervals to allow for the launch of arrows or other projectiles from within the defences.

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Walkways along the tops of the curtain walls allowed defenders to rain missiles on enemies below, and battlements gave them further protection.

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Dating back to the early 12th century, the Alcázar of Segovia is one of the most distinctive castles in Europe.

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A loophole or inverted keyhole embrasure, allowing both arrow fire (through the arrowslit at the top) and small cannon fire through the circular openings, Fort-la-Latte, France

Embrasure

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A loophole or inverted keyhole embrasure, allowing both arrow fire (through the arrowslit at the top) and small cannon fire through the circular openings, Fort-la-Latte, France
Pillbox stepped embrasure, Taunton Stop Line, England
Embrasure of Chinese wall
Embrasures at Mdina, Malta

An embrasure is the opening in a battlement between the two raised solid portions, referred to as crenel or crenelle in a space hollowed out throughout the thickness of a wall by the establishment of a bay.

There are embrasures especially in fortified castles and bunkers.

Turret (highlighted in red) attached to a tower on a baronial building in Scotland

Turret (architecture)

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Turret (highlighted in red) attached to a tower on a baronial building in Scotland
Corbelled corner turrets at Newark Castle, Port Glasgow
The turrets of Balhousie Castle in Perth, Scotland
Turret of the old fort guarding Havana harbour, Cuba
A turret on a building in Denver, Colorado
Turret at the Het Schip housing in the Amsterdam School style
Copper and silver turrets
Bastion terrace on Belém Tower with its Moorish bartizan turrets and cupolas from the north-west

In architecture, a turret (from Italian: torretta, little tower; Latin: turris, tower) is a small tower that projects vertically from the wall of a building such as a medieval castle.

A turret can have a circular top with crenelations as seen in the picture at right, a pointed roof, or other kind of apex.