15thc perception on swallowtail merlons?
   

It's not like I'm just telling something because I think so. It is the archaeologists who think so. None have been found to date, and probably never will be.

I had a church in Germany from the 1300s that had good views of the battlements at first glance.

       

After doing some research, I came across a second church a few villages away.

Same age and same architect.
Further on, one of the roofs burnt down around 1620.
The village probably didn't have enough money for a new roof, and simply tinkered with the existing battlements.

It looks like it, but unfortunately it is not. It cost me a lot of time.
But the archaeologists are right after all.

No such battlements before 1500.
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RE: 15thc perception on swallowtail merlons? - by Aga Tentakulus - 26-10-2021, 11:34 AM
Castle Drena - by JustAnotherTheory - 06-03-2026, 10:48 AM

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