Talk:Postern

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Manannan67 in topic Helm's Deep

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Online references at Google scholar provided details of some castles with postern gates.

  • Bodiam Castle. Paul Everson, "Bodiam Castle, East Sussex: a fourteenth-century designed landscape", in David Morgan Evans and others (eds), The remains of distant times: archaeology and the National Trust, Boydell & Brewer for the National Trust (Great Britain), 1996. ISBN 9780851156712
  • Paul Everson, "Bodiam Castle, East Sussex: castle and its designed landscape", in Peter Ettel and others (eds), Château-Gaillard, Etudes de Castellogie Médiévale 21, Actes Du Coloque International de Maynooth (2002), Centre de Recherches Archéologiques et Historiques Médiévales (CRAHM), 2004. ISBN 9782902685158
  • HW Fairman, "Preliminary Report on the Excavations at Amarah West, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1947-8", The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 34 (1948): 3–11.

This stub could do with expansion, of course. Things I'd love someone to research, or share their knowledge of sourced info regarding, are:

  • earliest known posterns excavated,
  • earliest documentary references to them,
  • historical seiges where use of posterns made a significant contribution,
  • technological development ancient to medieval, and
  • best preserved examples currently open to public viewing.

Good luck generous contributors! :) Alastair Haines (talk) 22:38, 12 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Helm's Deep

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Most readers nowadays would probably recognize the term postern from Aragorn and Gimli's sortie on the bridge at Helm's Deep -but I can't find a suitable source.Manannan67 (talk) 04:59, 16 January 2021 (UTC)Reply