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Fighting platform
A
fighting platform
or
terrace
is the uppermost defensive platform of an
ancient
or
medieval
gateway
,
tower
(such as the fighting platform on a
bergfried
) and
breteche
. The fighting platform is surrounded by a
battlement
, usually with
merlons
and
embrasures
.
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