[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.joshi-1981) › c17.s3.11 # Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c17.s3.11 Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c17.s3.11 - **Language:** English ### [c17.s3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.joshi-1981.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. - [Previous: c17.s3.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.joshi-1981.c17.s3.10) - [Next: c17.s3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.joshi-1981.c17.s3.12) - [Up: c17.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.joshi-1981.c17.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.joshi-1981.c17.s3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.joshi-1981.c17.s3.11) · Pramāṇa