- MARTELLO TOWERS
- round towers of strong build, erected as a defence at one time off the low shores of Sussex and Kent; they are of Italian origin; there is one off the harbour of Leith.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
MARTELLO TOWERS
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