Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c13.s1.3

c13.s1.3

The fort has got two exits, one (Fig.36) and (Illn.D 2) near the north-west corner looking west and another (Fig.35) in the middle of the eastern side looking east. They are not in alignment. On the exterior side of the fort are rectangular bastions (Illn. D 4),numbering 39, as already mentioned above, each measuring 5 x 3 metres at regular intervals of 30 to 40 metres. The width of the wall is 3 metres and the wall rises to a height of 6 metres. It has clayey earth and other waste material in the core and stone encasing on the sides. The wall is tapering towards the top. The top part, for almost all the length, is in ruins, excepting the western side. The parapet wall, that is extant at the top of the western wall, appears to have been renovated; hence it is not possible to know the architecture of the top most part of the fort.