Medieval Locked Doors

Designs based on the great architecture and styles of old world royalty.

Medieval locked doors.

Here is a great door. A barbed hasp of metal under tension would catch on a hook inside the padlock and a key would push in at the hook releasing the barb so that the hasp would spring open. Ancient rusty remains of a door lock in a wall at the medieval fortress on the acropolis of limenas thasos medieval door detail of a medieval oak door in the historic centre centro storico of bologna emilia romagna italy. Archeologists found the oldest known lock in the khorsabad palace ruins near nineveh.

Of medieval origin it underwent reforms until assuming a richly decorated gothic. Here is the main door to the keep at trim castle in ireland. It is the main door to the red fort in india and notice there the smaller door so they can let people in and out without opening the whole big door. Regarding the use of specified tools for forcible entry there are several other methods of door breaching.

Fortress style doors built in original craft designed for your castle church or estate. It was a forerunner to a pin tumbler type of lock and a common egyptian lock for the time. Here is another door from cardiff castle. The most common lock was simply a door bolt on the inside of the door with a hole and a curtain.

All historic styles hand built in original craft. Old wooden door with whrought iron door hardware entrance of medieval monastery detail of hinge made of iron on wooden door at de haar castle near utrecht. This door is an entrance to castell coch. Late medieval lock from newcastle upon tyne we know that the romans had barbed spring padlocks made of iron.

A prisoner was thrown into a medieval dungeon with 145 doors. The lock was estimated to be 4 000 years old. The hole through the door allowed you to bolt the simple sliding bolt from outside as well. This door can be found in cardiff castle.

This lock worked using a large wooden bolt to secure a door which had a slot with several holes in its upper surface. Nine shown by black bars are locked but each one will open if before you reach it you pass through exactly 8 open doors. You don t have to go through every open door but you do have to go through every cell and all 9 locked doors.