bastion belfry ram stone thrower bricole trebuchet arrow trebuchet biffa early bombard civil machine
Machines, their origins and their uses
The Stone Thrower
Defensive machine (XIe-XVe century) often placed on the top of the ramparts and been useful by women to bombard the troop of the attackers with balls being able to weigh good ten kilos.
it will be noticed that Pierrière to some extent made the transition enters the catapults of Roman antiquity and the artillery of the Middle Ages. The spoon of the catapults at summer replaced by a sling; the movement is not given any more by the tension of the bowels; but it is still the clash of the axis horizon who starts the shooting.
The Stone Thrower The Bricole The Trebuchet The Biffa