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How to use earthworks in a sentence

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Approximately twelve thousand men lived in huts, and an outer and inner line of defensive earthworks were built.
The massive earthworks, 15 m. thick, still stand to a height of 3 m. and are pierced by three original entrances.
The busy prehistory is known rather than seen in the shadow remnants of dikes and earthworks.
Up on the hill, the Americans pulled back, abandoning the earthworks and the Breed's Hill Fort to the oncoming attack.
The arrangements shall be made in respect of all earthworks including excavations whether for pipe trenches, foundations or cuttings.
The castle dates back to c 1180, but is also thought to incorporate earlier Anglo-Saxon earthworks.
At the car park we took more notice of the surroundings which are astonishingly furrowed with mysterious earthworks.
On May Hill, earthworks tell of a long history including quarrying, charcoal burning and grazing.
The henges are ancient monuments made up of circular earthworks, each 260 yards in diameter.
They are also reminiscent of ancient earthworks by Native American cultures, making each timeless regardless of their temporary nature.
The survey team rediscovered the earthworks, reviving the possibility that a 16th century fort may still exist on the Norfolk coast.
Here are to be found the fine earthworks of the long West Row of medieval peasant houses and their surrounding tofts and crofts.
Fallen trees, artillery, earthworks, and burned bridges blocked the paths into the city.
Some 1400 kilometres of earthworks need to be completed before it can take the ballast, sleepers and rails.
Great care was taken as the board envisaged disastrous results if the earthworks collapsed and released a wall of water upon New Plymouth.
Visible earthworks include roads, a fishpond, the foundation of a manor house, and 30 peasant houses set out in regular rows.
Most of these sites survive not as impressive ruins, but as the grassed-over remains of slumped earthworks formerly supporting timber structures.
The earthworks of the Neolithic henge comprise a 2 m. high bank with a 2 m. deep ditch.
Only fragments remain of this royal hunting lodge, although there are some impressive earthworks including Bank Slack.
Studies show the crabs can also cause serious damage by burrowing into banks and earthworks along rivers.
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Examples from Classical Literature
On the site of British earthworks the Romans established their camps.
There was much to be done in the way of strengthening the earthworks.
They tunnelled like moles, under the moats and through the earthworks.
Great anxiety prevails in West Surrey, and earthworks are being thrown up to check the advance Londonward.
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