Traps and Obstacles of a Castle Gatehouse and How They Developed | Anatomy of Castles 

and then trenches said f*#@ you

Thanks for making it gae

Thanks! :) The first one is I got from this site: www.q-files.com/history/castles-knights/castle-gatehouse The second one you asked for I found on Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/pin/434315957800958264/ Medieval heritage is a good site as well, they got lots of illustrations of Welsh castles: medievalheritage.eu/en/main-page/heritage/wales/

@@KobeanHistory Thanks. That Medieval Heritage site looks very interesting.

Do you have any examples of this? I suppose that could work depending on the type of portcullis but I haven’t found any records of a lock like that being used, if you know of any please let me know as I’d like to look into it.

@@KobeanHistory I lack the evidence of this, as what I stated is an alternative supposition, so I want to be clear I am not calling you out on the assumption as being wrong, just that there was a latteral option availavle . We know that it is effectively the same idea as barring a door with a beam which we do have evidence for. With beams pushed through from the guardhouse accross the door into the other guard house. Which Goodrich castle did for the gate as an example. Perhaps I am mistaken as the chace of people being able to escape when being stabbed and barraged in the killzone might not necessitate the need to lock the port cullis into place.