Medieval Locked Doors

Door breaching is a process used by military police or emergency services to force open closed and or locked doors a wide range of methods are available one or more of which may be used in any given situation.

Medieval locked doors.

This door is an entrance to castell coch. This door can be found in cardiff castle. Here is the main door to the keep at trim castle in ireland. Fortress style doors built in original craft designed for your castle church or estate.

This lock worked using a large wooden bolt to secure a door which had a slot with several holes in its upper surface. Here is a great door. Since this held the door closed against the weather rather well and stopped the pig and toddlers escaping so it was very useful. It was a forerunner to a pin tumbler type of lock and a common egyptian lock for the time.

Ancient rusty remains of a door lock in a wall at the medieval fortress on the acropolis of limenas thasos medieval door detail of a medieval oak door in the historic centre centro storico of bologna emilia romagna italy. It is the main door to the red fort in india and notice there the smaller door so they can let people in and out without opening the whole big door. Nine shown by black bars are locked but each one will open if before you reach it you pass through exactly 8 open doors. You don t have to go through every open door but you do have to go through every cell and all 9 locked doors.

Late medieval lock from newcastle upon tyne we know that the romans had barbed spring padlocks made of iron. Regarding the use of specified tools for forcible entry there are several other methods of door breaching. Medieval fortification refers to medieval military methods that cover the development of fortification construction and use in europe roughly from the fall of the western roman empire to the renaissance during this millennium fortifications changed warfare and in turn were modified to suit new tactics weapons and siege techniques. Here is another door from cardiff castle.

A barbed hasp of metal under tension would catch on a hook inside the padlock and a key would push in at the hook releasing the barb so that the hasp would spring open. Designs based on the great architecture and styles of old world royalty. Old wooden door with whrought iron door hardware entrance of medieval monastery detail of hinge made of iron on wooden door at de haar castle near utrecht. A prisoner was thrown into a medieval dungeon with 145 doors.

Archeologists found the oldest known lock in the khorsabad palace ruins near nineveh. Of medieval origin it underwent reforms until assuming a richly decorated gothic. All historic styles hand built in original craft.