Small Countryside Stronghold, 14th and 15th century

We sometimes find in the countryside dwellings in fields which have the shape of a tower or a small keep but these were more inhabited by bandits than by farmers. These field dwellings, arranged in such a way as to serve as a refuge for a few men living isolated and poorly, probably, with their neighbors, are also found on the coasts of Guyenne and in the south of France. These dungeons were sometimes equipped with ditches full of water, loopholes and machicolations to help defend the building