This photo shows the battlements at Blackness Castle in Linlithgow. Arrow slits, like the very thin holes you can see at Hermitage Castle near Hawick (above), were very narrow windows that ...

From the outside you can see the fortifications (opevnenie) of the castle, the ramparts (hradby), towers (veže), turrets (vežičky) and arrow slits (strieľne). Passing through the barbican ...