03-03-2019, 08:53 PM
(03-03-2019, 07:45 PM)Linda wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I see two towers and no swallowtail merlons. So all you can be going by is the one tower, if that is the only depiction you have.
Given the shape of the current chateau, i doubt anything shaped like the vms fortification would have fit in its place.
Also, none of that explains all the raised walls that seem to extend from it in various directions. You said they didnt need them, due to the steepness of the location, so why are they in the vms?
Unfortunately, the mountain itself hides view of the merlons in this depiction as well as the lower windows of the tower. Also, I think it highly unlikely that the current château is of the same size and shape, or occupies the same position, as the original fortress.
I said they didn't find it necessary to put a wall around the village, but this doesn't apply to the fortress itself which was on the side of the only pathway up to the top. In the end, the attacking army reached to top on the side of the village. I suspect that the skinny tower you see (not in the VMS depiction) might have been built by the attackers as a lookout pole for guiding their catapult.