Definitions: Portcullis /Port-cullice

How they were designed, built and protected armies and strategic areas.
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Definitions: Portcullis /Port-cullice

Post by pud » Sat Jan 06, 2007 7:49 pm

This is typically a "falling" gate or door and it is hung like a harrow above the gate.

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