Approximately twelve thousand men lived in huts, and an outer and inner line of defensive earthworks were built. |
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The massive earthworks, 15 m. thick, still stand to a height of 3 m. and are pierced by three original entrances. |
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The busy prehistory is known rather than seen in the shadow remnants of dikes and earthworks. |
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Up on the hill, the Americans pulled back, abandoning the earthworks and the Breed's Hill Fort to the oncoming attack. |
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The arrangements shall be made in respect of all earthworks including excavations whether for pipe trenches, foundations or cuttings. |
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The castle dates back to c 1180, but is also thought to incorporate earlier Anglo-Saxon earthworks. |
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At the car park we took more notice of the surroundings which are astonishingly furrowed with mysterious earthworks. |
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On May Hill, earthworks tell of a long history including quarrying, charcoal burning and grazing. |
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The henges are ancient monuments made up of circular earthworks, each 260 yards in diameter. |
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They are also reminiscent of ancient earthworks by Native American cultures, making each timeless regardless of their temporary nature. |
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The survey team rediscovered the earthworks, reviving the possibility that a 16th century fort may still exist on the Norfolk coast. |
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Here are to be found the fine earthworks of the long West Row of medieval peasant houses and their surrounding tofts and crofts. |
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Fallen trees, artillery, earthworks, and burned bridges blocked the paths into the city. |
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Some 1400 kilometres of earthworks need to be completed before it can take the ballast, sleepers and rails. |
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Great care was taken as the board envisaged disastrous results if the earthworks collapsed and released a wall of water upon New Plymouth. |
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Visible earthworks include roads, a fishpond, the foundation of a manor house, and 30 peasant houses set out in regular rows. |
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Most of these sites survive not as impressive ruins, but as the grassed-over remains of slumped earthworks formerly supporting timber structures. |
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The earthworks of the Neolithic henge comprise a 2 m. high bank with a 2 m. deep ditch. |
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Only fragments remain of this royal hunting lodge, although there are some impressive earthworks including Bank Slack. |
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Studies show the crabs can also cause serious damage by burrowing into banks and earthworks along rivers. |
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By his time only some of the earthworks, and the outer defence that was part of the city wall, survived. |
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In the most Belgicized areas, hill forts tended to give way to large settlements on lower ground, sometimes with their approaches defended by great running earthworks. |
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On opposite sides of the Manawapou River mouth the earthworks of Thacker's and Inman's redoubts can also still be seen and just south of the town the Okautiro redoubt. |
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The more powerful it was, the longer and heavier the trains it could pull, but the more substantial its rails and earthworks had to be to carry it. |
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In many other cases, evidence of masonry features or earthworks allows us to appreciate that the structures of urban castles embodied the architecture of authority. |
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When the massive inner earthworks were added, with only two entrances, they enclosed an arena separated from the outside world by an imposing barrier. |
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When Sherman reached those earthworks, he thought them the most impregnable he had ever seen. |
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Certain features, particularly earthworks and landscape scarring, will gradually disappear. |
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Elements of the earthworks which extend beyond the obvious perimeter of the fort include the glacis and the ravelin immediately outside the gate. |
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Heritage Action say science still cannot answer many of the questions about the earthworks, and they want a moratorium on quarrying near historic sites, until methods improve. |
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On the hillside facing the city, an attractive ski slope has been constructed with the aid of earthworks. |
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All told, one million cubic meters of earthworks will be performed over a 12-month period. |
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The earthworks and the remains of the small stream running between them are the only visible historic features. |
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The buildings, homes, and people in the city suffered terribly, but little damage was done to the British earthworks or soldiery. |
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Nineteenth century map-makers had a feeling there was something more to the area when they spotted the remains of Iron Age earthworks during an Ordnance Survey expedition. |
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Site activities are focused on access road construction and plant site earthworks preparation. |
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There are, however, great Iron Age earthworks on the Malvern and the Bredon Hills that have been dated to the 2nd 1st centuries bce. |
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Modification of air quality is linked to earthworks and increased heavy-vehicle traffic on roads. |
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In 2008, activities focused on engineering, access road construction, site preparation and earthworks. |
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Management of vegetation is also of concern as plant growth could damage or obscure the outline of the earthworks. |
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And of course there is also no need for earthworks, i.e. digging or tunnelling, when wireless data transmission is implemented. |
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Our walk-behind vibrating roller is extensively used in earthworks, granular and asphalt construction. |
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The earthworks were reused as a gun redoubt during the Civil War. |
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In addition the Normans reused existing defensive works such as the ruinous Saxon Shore forts, and also hastily constructed earthworks around camps and forts. |
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Construction activities on Kearl in the second quarter included work on piling, foundations and earthworks along with vessel and pipe fabrication. |
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It was either contemporary with, or built around four or five centuries after the earthworks. |
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Of course, the total construction costs of high-traffic roads are extremely variable, depending not only on pavement construction costs but also on the number of bridges, tunnels and earthworks actually involved. |
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Archaeologists define henges as earthworks consisting of a circular banked enclosure with an internal ditch. |
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The site of Aberdyfi Castle however is usually said to be at the motte earthworks further up the river near Glandyfi. |
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The county is rich in archaeological remains such as forts, earthworks and standing stones. |
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Surrounding the whole castle are large earthworks, designed by the Italian Federigo Gianibelli, and begun in the year before the Spanish Armada. |
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They also constructed large cult centres surrounded by pales, earthworks and moats. |
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Around Harkerside are some small stone circles that date to the Bronze Age and some Iron Age defensive earthworks. |
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Villages in low-lying, coastal Bangladesh have long made use of raised earthworks and designated a solid building on high ground to run to in a cyclone. |
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Prehistoric burial mounds and earthworks are visible. |
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Key features include diversity of plant habitat, rich horticulture, sculptural earthworks and ecologically demonstrative elements such as a green roof and grey water recycling. |
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The contract includes earthworks, civil engineering, drainage systems, installation of equipment, electrical works and automation, as well as commissioning of all the elements. |
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Trotec work tents are ideal for the most varied of applications, e.g. for working on switchgear and control cabinets, earthworks and cable-laying, wastewater pumps and inspections or for canal and road building operations. |
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All bridges, tunnels, stations, and earthworks were built for double track. |
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Advise on the innovative approaches which can be employed to promote the use of local materials in earthworks and unsealed roads by maximising their performance according to the envisaged use. |
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During the night, Caswell and his men had established a semicircular earthworks around the bridge end, and armed them with two small pieces of field artillery. |
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Some were later rebuilt in stone, but there are a great many castle sites in England where all that is visible today are traces of earthworks. |
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The earthworks of the castle are still clearly visible from a nearby footpath, but there is no public access to them. |
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The earthworks included extensive, elaborate systems of dams and irrigation for rice. |
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On the north side of the village, around North Farm, are earthworks signifying a lost settlement, grouped around a barn which was once a chapel. |
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It may be that earthworks and cropmarks in Walworth Park in the castle grounds signify a lost settlement associated with the one at North Farm. |
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Defensive measures were limited at the civitates, rarely more than palisaded earthworks in times of trouble, if even that. |
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The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds. |
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Their large earthworks, which expressed their cosmology of political and religious concepts, still stand throughout the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys. |
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The new route took the canal south via the expanding coal mines at Burnley, Accrington and Blackburn, but would require some sizable earthworks to pass the former. |
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Due to public demand, this section had to use a long tunnel behind Aberdyfi, and further major earthworks and tunnels were needed along the bank of the river. |
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This area has many other earthworks and erected stone monuments from the Neolithic and Early Bronze periods, including the Dorset Cursus, an earthwork 10 km. |
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The ground beneath us still rippled with earthworks from the Celtic hill fort that guarded the Menai Strait more than two and a half millennia ago. |
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Africans were instrumental in the development of major earthworks for cultivating these commodities, as well as in the knowledge of technology and techniques for processing. |
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Maendy camp consisted of two earthworks, an inner and outer enclosure. |
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Examples of earthworks and other artifacts from the Bronze and Iron Ages can be seen in the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes and the Romans built a fort at Bainbridge. |
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Passing a Renato Niemis glass sculpture commemorating the dead, you enter a tunnel in the earthworks, resembling the reinforced shelters in airfields. |
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At the north end of the village, the fields on the east and west sides of the North Farm buildings contain earthworks signifying a lost settlement. |
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