une chicane
English translation: bent entrance
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| French to English translations [PRO] Archaeology / Description of the walls of a city in East Africa dating from the 13th century. | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Alison MacG United Kingdom Local time: 00:49 | ||||||
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| 3 +2 | chicane |
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| 3 +1 | dogleg |
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| 3 | bent entrance |
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| Dictionary of Islamic Architecture By Andrew Petersen |
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peer agreement (net): +1dogleg Explanation: https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1782978577 Margaret M. Miles - 2015 - History 22–24) classifies these walls as fortifications (Lang's “Type 4”); the point is also ... a large enclosed interior space, creating a double gate layout with a dogleg, ... https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1780969775 Marcus Cowper - 2012 - History The fortifications consist of a double enceinte. ... In this plan (after Quehen and Roquebert) the entrance to the castle can be seen protected by a dogleg turn https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0230213774 Helen M. Jewell - 2006 - History Restored medieval fortifications at Carcassonne show the impenetrable ... of blind alleys and dog-leg streets within city walls of towns such as York and Norwich, ... http://www.castle.lv/castles4/hroniki/glossary.html "Dog-leg - a right angle in a passageway (for example, garderobes usually had a dog-leg approach so that the air from the privy pit would not blow back directly into the room). Dog-legged - with right-angle bends." |
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3 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2chicane Explanation: The fortification survives as an irregular hexagonal shaped fort with deep steeply sloping outer ditches to the north, west and east and a redan to the south guarded by a chicane and drawbridge https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1... the route went over a drawbridge and via an embanked chicane. http://www.polyolbion.org.uk/Fortifications/Plymouth/Plymout... One of the entrances is still well preserved, and has a monolithic lintel 1.8 m long (Fig. 7) and a chicane (a deceptive zigzag entrance). ....... http://nzarchaeology.org/cms/NZJA/Vol 18 1996/NZJA18.81-123S... https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=65-v0wkrWYEC&pg=PA336&lp... chicane: a defensive feature which denies direct access ... (followd by sketch of what it looked like) The fortress has two entrances: one on the western side, which is straight and preceded by a chicane entrance in the defence wall http://www.militaryarchitecture.com/index.php/Fortifications... |
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| Reference: Dictionary of Islamic Architecture By Andrew Petersen Reference information: The only entrance is in the middle of the south side and consists of a wide gateway leading into a gateway with the exit on the east side thus forming a bent entrance. Excavations have revealed the traces of a few structures inside but these may be later and do not give any indication of the function of the building which is unparalleled elsewhere in East Africa and suggests an outside influence. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9A-EAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA89&lpg... M. Creswell a particulièrement étudié les entrées en chicane (Bent Entrance) dans une enceinte fortifiée ... http://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/syria_0039-7946_1954_num_31_3_... |
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