The tunnel inclined steeply as it left the Castle St. Angelo, proceeding upward into the underside of a stone bastion that looked like a Roman aqueduct.

The stone bastions of the fort that survived the fire were afterward used as a relay by the British troops.

He stared up at the stone bastion, beautiful against the sky this morning.

The fort was built with walls that were 10 to 22 feet in height and a stone bastion which was 29 feet in height.

Near the museum is the small Bastion Museum, inside a stone bastion in the Menton harbour wall.

The bridge is made wholly from cast iron (apart from the stone bastions) and was only the seventh such bridge to be built.

Novgorodians built the current stone bastions and towers in 1364 after a fire had destroyed the original wooden fortress in 1360.

Reinforcing security of the fortress on the side of mount Cherche inlet, a moat was dug out and two stone bastions constructed.

Cocteau also decorated the wedding room in Menton's town hall, and the small stone bastion in Menton's harbour wall.

These walls were much smaller in length, enclosing only two thirds of the medieval area, allowing them to include more artillery emplacements and five large stone bastions.