putlog hole

Interior putlog holes may be left open, particularly if not in a finished space.

Putlog holes may extend through a wall to provide staging on both sides of the wall.

A historically common type of scaffolding, putlog holes date from the ancient Roman buildings.

The keep's domed roof also has several putlog holes that supported a wooden fighting-platform.

The massive exterior facade has putlog holes indicating incompleteness.

The interior has various putlog holes three metres from ground level, and various internal dressed slots.

The barbican contains numerous putlog holes from its construction, although these would have been masked by exterior plasterwork in the medieval period.

The outside of the towers still have the putlog holes from their original construction, where timbers were inserted to create a spiralling ramp for the builders.

In some castles, construction of hoardings was facilitated by putlog holes that were left in the masonry of castle walls.

The putlog holes which held the scaffolding are evident in many places in the walls, which stand several metres high in places.

These include semi-circular door arches, window styles, corbelled towers and positioning of putlog holes, and are usually ascribed to the influence of the Savoy architect Master James.

At Conwy, for example, the walls were white-washed with a lime render, and the putlog holes in the walls may have been used to display painted shields called targes from the walls.

Putlogs may be sawn off flush with the wall if they cannot be removed but exterior putlog holes are typically filled in as the scaffold is removed to prevent water from entering the walls.

Putlog holes or putlock holes are small holes in the walls of structures to receive the ends of poles (small round logs) or beams, called putlogs or putlocks, to form scaffolding.

The inconsequential size and the spacing of the holes meant that they did not affect the solidity of the walls, and in well-preserved castles, like Beaumaris, the ancient putlog holes can be seen to this day.

He saw this pair of windows, and putlog holes in the walls for supporting timbers, as evidence for a west gallery, for which space needed to be left between that pair of windows and the west wall.

On that walls (thick about 3 m), the remains of Machicolation, Putlog holes or Hoardings can be seen, and in addition to the closed ground, had the floor, over which there was an open top of the tower with battlement on.