As we conversed thus, we came in front of a great arched doorway, in a curtain wall connecting two massive fragments of rock.
Wafts of smoke were escaping near the foundations of the curtain wall near the gate!
The ruins consist of two towers, with part of a gateway and curtain wall, together with fragments of massive bastions.
Except for the beveling of the mold for the curtain wall recesses, the framing is all plain saw and hammer work.
The sea washes the rocks on which they are built, and in time of storm the spray flies over the curtain wall.
The windows, hidden from the exterior by the curtain wall, are slightly rounded.
Already the ditches are deep, the curtain wall of hawthorn high and impenetrable, the approaches narrow.
It was erected by Alan Fergeant, who in 1071 commenced operations and encircled the triangular site with a curtain wall.
Part of the curtain wall was completely reversed by the force of the explosive and now shows its inner face.
Mayne realized that the bone framework formed a sort of curtain wall.
