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      "Heritage survival"
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      "city wall towers and flanking towers",
      "gate towers",
      "battery towers and artillery towers",
      "half towers and shell towers",
      "tower houses and peel towers",
      "prison towers by later use"
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        "relation": "is a kind of",
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        "why": "in registry terms"
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        "relation": "is a kind of",
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        "relation": "is part of",
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      "Anachronistic terminology"
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    "out_of_scope": [],
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        "Report cracks, falling stone or unsafe access to its custodian."
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        "Send visitors up unstable stairs, walls or roofs of a fortified tower.",
        "Climb, dig or remove stone from a protected tower without permission.",
        "Confuse tower types or apply medieval terms to towers of other periods.",
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        "Restoration, stabilisation or closure of a historic tower."
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        "Old towers can collapse; visitor safety comes before access.",
        "Towers used as prisons hold memories of suffering that deserve respectful telling."
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        "Visitors",
        "Heritage custodians",
        "Local communities"
      ]
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      "id": "wikipedia-en",
      "title": "Wikipedia: Fortified tower",
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                    "text": "Is the structure a fortified tower or another kind of tower?",
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                  }
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            "id": "features",
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                "id": "features-finding",
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                    "text": "What features such as arrow slits, machicolations and gun ports identify period and function?",
                    "kind": "definition"
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                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits the specific kind?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
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              }
            ]
          }
        ]
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      {
        "id": "history",
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        "description": "Development.",
        "rationale": "Context.",
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            "name": "Development",
            "description": "Development.",
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              {
                "id": "development-finding",
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                "description": "Development.",
                "questions": [
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                    "text": "How did fortified towers develop from antiquity through the castle age to artillery fortification?",
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                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which references are standard?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
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          {
            "id": "regions",
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            "description": "Regional forms.",
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              {
                "id": "regions-finding",
                "name": "Regions",
                "description": "Regions.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What regional forms exist, such as tower houses, peel towers and Italian civic towers?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits the regional form?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
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        "id": "sites",
        "name": "Sites",
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                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which fortified towers are notable, and how are they documented?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits the specific tower?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
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            "id": "conservation",
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            "description": "Conservation.",
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              {
                "id": "conservation-finding",
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                  {
                    "text": "How are fortified towers conserved and opened to visitors?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits heritage conservation?",
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              }
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        "id": "study",
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                "id": "archaeology-finding",
                "name": "Archaeology",
                "description": "Archaeology.",
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                  {
                    "text": "How do archaeologists and historians study fortified towers?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
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                  {
                    "text": "Which sources are cited?",
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          {
            "id": "reuse",
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              {
                "id": "reuse-finding",
                "name": "Reuse",
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                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How were towers reused as prisons, residences and museums?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits adaptive reuse?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
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    ]
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    "Should keep and tower house be separate entries?",
    "How should castle inventories be linked?",
    "The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific kinds; should they be split off?"
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