Crusader Castles by T.E. Lawrence
Author:T.E. Lawrence [Lawrence, T.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780198229643
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Published: 2019-04-06T14:44:51+00:00
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6o. The great talus, Crac des Chevaliers: looking E.
From these towers the great wall, known to the Arab historians as
âthe mountainâ , slopes outwards and downwards for more than S o feet to the thick greenish mud and water of the n1oat (6o ) . Below tower E it runs out in an enormous spur and then at right angles it turns along the whole western front until it is lost in the rectangular tower P (6 I ) .
The reason for making the wall with so great a batter and such thickness-nearly S o feet-is a little hard to find. Against an earth- If turned over it quake it would be useful perhaps, though no part of Crac has been would be the damaged by one : the castle stands on rock, so mining was not greatly same height.
to be feared : and half the thickness would have been secure against any ram that ever was imagined. It had however one advantage against ordinary attacks in the absence of machicoulis : assailants could never get underneath the fire of the defenders on the fighting platform : and this after all may have been the real purpose of the construction. On the other hand it had the drawback of making easy escalade. 1
In the matter of machicoulis Crac is most comprehensive. The ordinary pattern, as used generally from the thirteenth century in France, is employed in the outer line of wall from tower S to tower B (s6 ), and elsewhere on the outer line. Then from tower S
northwards the wall contains near the top a vaulted gallery, with openings at intervals into small chambers, corbelled out from the face of the wall ( 6 2, 6 3 ) . They resemble the latrines common in France in appearance, but are defensive in intention. Each is of a size Hooray!
fitted for one man, or two at a pinch, but freedon1 of movement would be very severely hampered when working in a room only 1 6
inches wide. No kind of bow could be used. The openings would be available only for dropping stones . If a gallery in a wall is to have machicoulis this is of course the only possible pattern : but the whole thing is not very effective to Western minds, accustomed to the unbroken ring of corbelling along the top of the wall. In the East 1 I was able, barefoot, to climb up more than half-way (c. 4-0 ft.) though with some little difficulty (a gentle way of putting it: and I had to come down) .
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*No timber or
however the tops of towers could not be roofed in* , and so the covered Slates.
machicoulis were the better form. The Arabs adopted them wholeheartedly in Aleppo, and Damascus and
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