14-06-2026, 03:29 PM
Hi Ed, there's something I still don't understand about your map.
"Where building authenticity is documented, these swallowtail merlons are overwhelmingly 19th–20th-c. reconstructions. The manuscript depictions may be more reliable evidence for medieval merlon form than the standing buildings. Absent buildings show as “undetermined” (no reliable source found), not as original."
Entries are only added to the map when we are near-certain that they had swallowtail merlons by 1450. These are considered good evidence - that's kind of the whole idea of the map.
"Where building authenticity is documented, these swallowtail merlons are overwhelmingly 19th–20th-c. reconstructions. The manuscript depictions may be more reliable evidence for medieval merlon form than the standing buildings. Absent buildings show as “undetermined” (no reliable source found), not as original."
Entries are only added to the map when we are near-certain that they had swallowtail merlons by 1450. These are considered good evidence - that's kind of the whole idea of the map.