Section wall

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Section wall near Straßberg (Bobingen)

A section wall (also section fastening ) is a fortification that does not completely enclose the area to be defended. It only protects a certain section and was only built in exposed places.

Such systems are still found above ground and can be found on mountain spurs , river bends (for example the oppidum of Altenburg-Rheinau ) and on steep seashores (for example the Iron Age Penchâteau in the French department of Loire-Atlantique ) and at Promontory forts of the British Isles .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rafael von Uslar: Castle . In: Heinrich Beck et al. (Ed.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (founded by Johannes Hoops). De Gruyter, Berlin 1979, p. 125.