Talk:Postern

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Online references at Google scholar provided details of some castles with postern gates. This stub could do with expansion, of course. Things I'd love someone to research, or share their knowledge of sourced info regarding, are: Good luck generous contributors! :) Alastair Haines (talk) 22:38, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 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.
 * 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.

Helm's Deep
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)