Battlement
Videos
A battlement, in defensive architecture such as city walls and castles, is a parapet—a low protective wall between chest and head height—in which regularly spaced gaps or indentations, usually rectang
Battlements on the Great Wall of China
Decorative battlements at Persepolis
Drawing of battlements on a tower
9th-century BC Assyrian relief depicting an attack on a walled town whose zig-zag-shaped battlements are clearly visible
Curtain wall (fortification)
Videos
A curtain wall is a defensive wall between fortified towers or bastions of a castle, fortress, or town.
Beaumaris Castle in Anglesey in North Wales, with curtain walls between the lower outer towers, and higher inner curtain walls between the higher inner towers.
Reconstruction of the 9th-century BC defensive walls around ancient Tel Lachish in modern Israel.
The 12th-century curtain wall of the Château de Fougères in Brittany in northern France, showing the battlements, arrowslits and overhanging machicolations.
Two sections of the 16th-century curtain wall around Berwick-upon-Tweed, at the eastern end of the Anglo-Scottish border.