Watch tower
The watch tower (or eschauguette , eschargaite or escharguettes , escargaite , eschelgaite , esgaritte , garite , pionnelle , maisoncelle , centinelle or sentinel , hobette ) indicated, of 14th at the 16th century, the sentinel. Currently, the term indicates small construction intended to shelter, in a strong Château, the watcher supervising the country on a broad horizon.
In the oldest fortifications of the Middle Ages, there were watch towers. It is to be believed that these first watch towers were out of wood, like the Hourd S, and that one posed them in time of war. All crownings of fortresses former to the 12th century being destroyed, we do not know the exact shape of these primitive watch towers; when they did not consist only of small wood cabins, but if they were built in masonry, it was only of small square or cylindrical houses crowning the angles of principal defenses, as those of the Donjon of the castle of Arques. The first watch towers are not former to the 12th century; they are then placed on defenses; they or are closed, covered and provided even with chimneys, or present only one projection on an angle, along a curtain, so as to offer a small flanking intended to facilitate the monitoring, to pose a sentinel, one watches for. It was particularly in the vicinity of the doors, with the angles of the rough works, the top of the keeps, which one built of the watch towers.
The watch towers are generally provided with Meurtrière S Several strengthened churches of Thiérache is equipped with it.
The construction of fortifications by Vauban continues to use watch towers, at the same time on corbel and Console.
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“Servanz I mist E knights,
- And eschargait are E gatekeepers,
- Then east repairiez in Danfront .
- And eschargait are E gatekeepers,
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Its eschauguettes has Li kings unscrewed” .
but also guard, the station:
- “By the escargaite Droom Poitevin,
- the wire the king let fors of it issir. ”
One said escargaiter to keep, épier:
- “Ost escargaïte Salemon Li Sennas. ”
According to: Purple the Duke.
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