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Yet another castle diagram (they never get old, tbh) (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Oh absolutely, and in later eras, a fair amount of the adding-on was less for functional reasons and more for the flex.

I think that if there was an existing stone tower keep, and the ability to build a stone wall like that, the owner would have added more to the keep, and less to the wall. I'm also now thinking that the crenalations (especially on that tower) don't quite fit. In the age where that kind of tower would have been built, I don't think they were doing crenalations yet; on something that size, especially in that picture, with that wall, crenalations on the tower would have been purely decorative.