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history of fortifications
- In military technology: Stone fortifications
…were fitted with provisions for hoardings, which were overhanging wooden galleries from which arrows, stones, and unpleasant substances such as boiling tar and pitch could be dropped or poured on an attacker. Hoardings gave way to machicolations, permanent overhanging galleries of stone that became a distinctive feature of medieval European…
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