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I think it was typo in the article. It would be physically impossible to have a wide range of firing angles if the interior part was narrow.

jfoucher 6y ago
I had to sketch it, but it looks like the angle of view only depends on the angles of the wall, not where the narrow part is... https://postimg.cc/ykwFjD62 https://postimg.cc/ykwFjD62
- apexalpha 6y ago
  I do think the person above you is correct in that the author of the blog made a mistake. I've never seen arrow slits that are narrow inside the wall. If I look at the old wall around my city's medieval centre we can clearly see they this: From the outside: https://www.google.com/maps/@50.845463,5.6946097,3a,75y,330.99h,94.55t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKKUKAyAEzjqVdEwhtJC2Mw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@50.845463,5.6946097,3a,75y,330.... Inside: https://www.google.nl/maps/@50.8456076,5.6945364,3a,75y,165.76h,95.13t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNh-TlNFdlCVnoWQsyBaT3Tv_-SQlqNyhdsDcs!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNh-TlNFdlCVnoWQsyBaT3Tv_-SQlqNyhdsDcs%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya11.841411-ro-0-fo100!7i11776!8i4230 https://www.google.nl/maps/@50.8456076,5.6945364,3a,75y,165....
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- quantummkv 6y ago
  Huh. It looks like you are right. The narrow inside don't actually impede the view of the defender that much. But keeping the narrow part on the outside does provide some extra defense.
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- gwd 6y ago
  Right, but the problem with having the narrow part on the inside is that any arrow that hits within the "cone" will be "funneled" right into the defender; whereas what you want is for attackers' arrows to hit only if they manage to get just the right place. The wording is slightly unclear, but I can't imagine anyone this well-versed in medieval warfare wouldn't know that arrow slits would be wider inside than outside.
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alchemism 6y ago
Just reviewed my photos from the Castle of Rhodes — wide on the inside narrow on the outside. They held out for twenty years in the Ottoman siege I think.

jfoucher 6y ago

I had to sketch it, but it looks like the angle of view only depends on the angles of the wall, not where the narrow part is... https://postimg.cc/ykwFjD62 https://postimg.cc/ykwFjD62

apexalpha 6y ago
I do think the person above you is correct in that the author of the blog made a mistake. I've never seen arrow slits that are narrow inside the wall. If I look at the old wall around my city's medieval centre we can clearly see they this: From the outside: https://www.google.com/maps/@50.845463,5.6946097,3a,75y,330.99h,94.55t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKKUKAyAEzjqVdEwhtJC2Mw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@50.845463,5.6946097,3a,75y,330.... Inside: https://www.google.nl/maps/@50.8456076,5.6945364,3a,75y,165.76h,95.13t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNh-TlNFdlCVnoWQsyBaT3Tv_-SQlqNyhdsDcs!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNh-TlNFdlCVnoWQsyBaT3Tv_-SQlqNyhdsDcs%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya11.841411-ro-0-fo100!7i11776!8i4230 https://www.google.nl/maps/@50.8456076,5.6945364,3a,75y,165....
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quantummkv 6y ago
Huh. It looks like you are right. The narrow inside don't actually impede the view of the defender that much. But keeping the narrow part on the outside does provide some extra defense.
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gwd 6y ago
Right, but the problem with having the narrow part on the inside is that any arrow that hits within the "cone" will be "funneled" right into the defender; whereas what you want is for attackers' arrows to hit only if they manage to get just the right place. The wording is slightly unclear, but I can't imagine anyone this well-versed in medieval warfare wouldn't know that arrow slits would be wider inside than outside.
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alchemism 6y ago

Just reviewed my photos from the Castle of Rhodes — wide on the inside narrow on the outside. They held out for twenty years in the Ottoman siege I think.