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... still further west , upon which a bretesche would rest overhanging the entrance. The keep entrance was dealt with at the same time, the existing ribbed inner portion, replacing the Norman entrance which has entirely disappeared.
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Some of the towers had attached to their walls — generally over the gateway — a bretesche, or penthouse , with loops and meurtrières. Clennell Tower, for instance, is described in 1541 as "newly reparelled and brattyshed."
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The gallery may have received protection by a bretesche or a machicolated battlement and may have been used for raising a drawbridge, if such existed in front of the entrance doorway; or the doorway may have contained a hoist ...
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In preparing the site for a bretesche, if the Normans found an earthen mound already existing, they naturally made use of it.
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