Art History Image Library Photo Number / SYLASAL00011
Crusader Castles
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SYLASAL00011

28m deep ditch, which was cut into living rock probably by the Byzantines (it might have been completed by the crusaders). This ditch, which runs 156 meters along the east side, is 14 to 20 meters wide and has a lonely 28-meter high needle to support the drawbridge to Saladin's Castle