This photo shows the towers at Eglinton Castle in Ayrshire. Battlements were walls on the roof of a castle. They had higher walls, called merlons, with lower gaps between, called crenels.

Now Grade II-listed Bell’s Castle, in the Cotswolds, is set to fill another treasure chest – and it could fetch over £2.5million. Complete with brooding battlements and turrets, it’s set in ...

16th century property was outer defence for nearby Castlemartyr Estate The castle is gently tucked ... feature of the property is access to the battlements that provide breath-taking 360 degrees ...

Inspired by a nightmare he had while living here, Horace Walpole wrote The Castle of Otranto, widely considered the first Gothic novel, in 1764. Filled with pointed arches, turrets, battlements and ...