ballium

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Examples

• Both these castles are enclosed by a court or ballium, with a fortified entrance, like those erected by the Normans.

• And a scuffle of wrestling men sent its fearful, deathlike sound through the dark ballium.

• The keep and inner ballium was still their own as a place of retreat, however short a period it might remain so.

• Within is another line of walls with towers, called the Inner Ballium, having various buildings interspersed.

• High walls with an embattled parapet surround the lower court, or ballium, which we enter by a gate defended by strong towers.