Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c17.s3.11

c17.s3.11

The fort wall, including the bastions, is of ashlar masonry. It measures on the interior 8 m. to 10 m. exterior 10.50 m. to 12 m. high, with a normal width of 9 m. to 10 m. At the top is a wide wall-walk of 5 m. to 5.50 m. with battlements 2.50 m. high at the exterior edge. These battlements have slits of 15 cms. wide by making the angles of 60°, 45°, with the vertical plain of the battlements for keeping guns in various positions to shoot at the enemy farther from and nearer to the fort wall.