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• The keep has numerous murder holes and defensive turrets at the corners.
• Forty soldiers could defend it thanks to numerous murder holes and rectangular bays set symmetrically into the walls.
• The pointed south door is defended by a shot-hole on the left and a murder hole above.
• Prudom who was wanted for several murders holed up in Malton near the police station and when cornered, he committed suicide.
• The term'murder hole'may relate to the drowning sites, bones have been found close to some of these.
• Built in the flamboyant Gothic architecture, the castle impresses both in area and height, by the number of its machicolations, its latrines and its murder holes.
• An inlet at the west of the loch is marked on maps as'Murder Hole'and features in SR Crockett's " The Raiders ".
• It also refers to areas within castles specially designed to bunch attackers who had breached the outer defenses into an area where the defenders could kill them easily through murder holes.
• The inner gatehouse protects the main entry, with a portcullis and a fortified corridor lined with arrow loops and murder holes, and closed by huge doors at both ends.
• The gatehouse has gunloops, murder holes and slots for a drawbridge, although it is uncertain if one was ever fitted; it would originally have formed a sort of protective barbican.
• The castle has all the basic features of a tower house of this period such as machicolation, murder hole, base batter, mural passages, spiral staircase, gun-loops, garderobe and bawn.
• However, the original'Murder Hole'was a well on the Glen Trool to Straiton road where the bodies of travellers who had been robbed and murdered were dumped and Crockett moved the location for his book.
• On the Water of Minnoch is a deep pool known as the'Murder Hole'in which a family from Rowantree dumped their victims; they were caught, confessed and were the last to be hanged on the dule tree.
• The ribbed vault over the entrance passage, the murder hole and the massive portcullis at either end of the gatehouse are later insertions started by Hugh de Lacey who died in 1248 and did not live to see its completion in around 1250.
• It is not clear why men were more likely to be hanged and women drowned in a fen, river, pit or'murder hole,'however it may relate to ideas of decency or because it was a less violent death.
• Moats often surrounded the sites, to protect against any attack from land, and they were further protected by what the historian B . Morley describes as the " defensive paraphernalia developed in the Middle Ages " : portcullises, murder holes and reinforced doors.
• The two buildings certainly do look similar, and originally the tower of Poppi would have been taller, with machicolations ( projecting parapets with'murder holes'for dropping various missiles on the enemy beneath ) that would have made the appearance even more similar.
• The entrance to the keep is protected by a drawbridge and a fortified inner gatehouse entrance with two portcullises with a killing area between them covered by three so-called " murder holes ", through which the defenders could attack any intruders trapped between the two portcullises.
• The author Joseph Train records however that at the last " shire-mote " ever held in Carrick by the Earl of Cassillis, the MacKillups of Craingenreach were hanged on the dule tree of Cassillis circa 1746, having murdered a neighbour and thrown his remains into " the common murder hole of the Bailiery at Craigenreach ".
• A new dule tree, grown from a cutting taken from the old one, a plane tree or sycamore maple On the Water of Minnoch is a deep pool known as the'murder hole'in which a family from Rowantree dumped their victims; they were caught, confessed and were the last to be hanged on the dule tree.