corbie step

corbie step, also called crow stepCorbie steps on the D’Leuwenburgh Taverne, Amsterdam, 1600Graphic House, Inc.—EB Inc.stone used for covering any of the steps or indentations in the coping (uppermost, covering course) of a gable; the term is also applied to the step itself. Corbie steps were common in late medieval buildings of the Netherlands and Belgium and occurred frequently in 15th-century Scottish architecture. They also appear in some 15th-century English houses, such as Oxburgh Castle, Norfolk (1482).