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Plate 61:  Constructing the Black Castle, Part 27: an elevated view from the wall-walk of the right bastion
(This plate added MAR 2004)

In this view, we are looking through a newly-constructed crenellation on the right bastion. However, this view is not exactly what a defender standing upon the wall-walk of the right bastion would see.

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In toy-soldier scale, the merlons are about seven feet high, so, in this view, we are looking through the crenellation at an observer's eye-level of about eight or nine feet.

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