A | B |
Stood with Bows and arrows keeping watch | Sentries |
Stone structures that protect sentries | battlements |
Gap in a battlement | Crenel |
Solid Stone part of a battlement | Merlon |
Walled passage leads to castle gate | Barbican |
Cross this over the Moat | Drawbridge |
Deep ditch surrounds the Castle | Moat |
Iron door protecting castle gate | Portcullis |
Tall structure at each corner of the castle | Keep |
Narrow vertical slit where arrows can be fired | arrow loop |
Bailey or Ward | Courtyard in the castle |
Principal living quarters of a castle | Great hall |
Protective wall at the top of the Castle | parapet |
Finial | slender piece of stone that decorates the merlon |
stable | structure for castle horses |
donjon | inner storehouse at the bottom of the keep |