A bartizan (an alteration of ''bratticing''), also called a guerite, ''garita'', or ''échauguette'', or spelled bartisan, is an overhanging, wall-mounted

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projecting from the walls of late medieval and early-modern fortifications from the early 14th century up to the 18th century. Most frequently found at corners, they protected a warder and enabled him to see his surroundings. Bartizans generally are furnished with oillets or arrow slits. The turret was usually supported by stepped masonry

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s and could be round, polygonal or square. Bartizans were incorporated into many notable examples of Scottish Baronial architecture. In the architecture of Aberdeen, the new Town House, built in 1868–74, incorporates bartizans in the West Tower.

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File:Round Bartizan, Fortaleza de Santiago, Sesimbra, Portugal.JPG, ''Guarita'' at Fortaleza de Santiago,

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, Senglea, Malta. File:Canuelo-2.jpg, ''Garita'' at

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in the Bay of San Juan, Puerto Rico. File:Bartizan.jpg, South-East Bartizan on Greenknowe Tower, Scottish Borders (and another one in the background) File:Ft de Chartres-bastion-1.jpg, Bartizan at Fort de Chartres, a French colonial era fort in Illinois on the Mississippi River. File:Garita at Castillo de San Cristobal-Detail.jpg, ''Garita'' at Castillo San Cristóbal (San Juan) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. File:JerusalemBevingrad.jpg, A bartizan-style British concrete position at Sergei courtyard, Jerusalem. This is probably the sole existing testimony of the British "

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" constructed in 1946. File:Devil's Sentry Box or the "Garita del Diablo", en el Morro y el Atlantico.tiff, Devil's Sentry Box, or the "Garita del Diablo", San Cristóbal Castle, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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File:Town House, top of West Tower, Aberdeen, Peddie and Kinnear, 1868-74, photo Jane Cartney 2010RESIZED200.jpg, Bartizans on the West Tower of the new Town House in Aberdeen, Scotland, 1868–74. File:Torre de belem vista do tejo.jpg, Manueline ''Guaritas'' at Belém Tower in

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, Portugal. File:Feartagar Castle, County Galway - bartizans.jpg, Bartizans at Feartagar Castle, Ireland. File:'s-Heerenberg Huis Bergh Hof 4.jpg, Courtyard of Bergh House, 's-Heerenberg, Netherlands File:Vredespaleis 1.JPG, The Peace Palace bell tower, The Hague, Netherlands File:A belváros (The city centre) - panoramio.jpg,

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, Freiburg, Germany

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