Swallowtail merlons... or provenance

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Nice, VViews. The only date I've found is on the German wiki, built by the knights of st john in the early 1500s.

However, this brought me to Bodrum castle, which was built by the same order a century earlier:

Bodrum Castle, aka the Castle of St. Peter, was built starting in 1402 by the Order of the Knights of Saint John, who were seeking safety from the invading Seljuks

Always look carefully at the merlons in these pictures. Is the color and texture of the stone slightly different from the stones below? In this case they look suspiciously finer-textured and just a tiny bit more evenly gray. It may or may not mean anything, maybe the originals were made from different stone from the rest of them, but many castles have rebuilt their towers and merlons over the centuries, so it's always best to be cautious in deciding.

I based my research on merlons on old maps and drawings rather than on photos, to see where they were located in the 15th centuries, but these resources are, of course, quite sparse.