The palette

Stone bricks with cracked stone bricks and andesite for the walls (mossy stone bricks, mossy cobblestone and cobblestone near the ground), polished andesite and chiseled stone bricks for the arch frames, quoins and bands; bricks with a little polished granite for the cones and the guard room roof; dark oak logs and calcite for the guard room's frame and plaster; iron bars for the portcullis, dark oak trapdoors for the gate leaves, red wool and a gold block for the arms and pennants, gold blocks and lightning rods for the finials.

Techniques

• Round drum towers
• Machicolations on corbels
• Smooth cones
• A deep pointed arch
• A guard room on corbels

The steps

1. Stone footing and the road through the gate
2. Drum towers: the battered bases
3. Drum towers: walls and cross loops
4. Drum towers: the string course
5. Drum towers: the upper walls
6. Gate block: the walls and the pointed arch
7. The passage: its vault, the portcullis and the gates
8. The town's arms over the gate
9. Drum towers: machicolations and merlons
10. Drum towers: the tiled cones
11. Gilded finials and red pennants
12. Guard room: corbels and murder holes
13. Guard room: dark oak frame and white plaster
14. Guard room: the steep tiled roof and its gable
15. Town wall stubs
16. Wall stubs: the walk, parapet and merlons
17. Lanterns at the gate

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