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Tower Defences – Reading Walls and Towers

A guide to the Tower’s defensive layers: from ditch to parapet, and how forms adapted to new warfare.

11/27/2025
12 min read
Curtain walls and towers of the Tower of London

Defensive Grammar

  • Curtain walls distribute load and line-of-sight control.
  • Towers project to improve flanking fire.

Evolution

  • Arrow loops to gunports: a shift in weapons logic.

Image Highlights

Walls 1 Walls 2 Tower cluster

Bottom Line

Fortification is a moving target—the Tower records centuries of responses.

저자 소개

Fortification Analyst

Fortification Analyst

런던 타워를 슬기롭게 즐길 수 있도록 만든 안내서 — 명확한 페이스, 더 나은 타이밍, 예배당·왕관·돌의 회랑이 울림을 주는 문맥을 담았습니다.

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walls
towers
defence
parapet
ditch

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