Architecture:
barmkin
In the Middle Ages, the battlement of a fortified tower in Scotland and northern England.
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Archaeology Dictionary:
barmkin
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A defensive farmyard enclosure, usually attached to a towerhouse or shield, in which animals are sheltered and crops stored. In Ireland it is know as a bawn, an anglicized version of the Irish word badhun or bo-dhaingan meaning a cattle fortress.
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