Now the dirt highway was bordered on either side by a fairly deep drainage ditch, too broad to leap over unless you were an Olympic star.

Adopting a relatively new tactic, Polish units built a fortified camp on the Hussite model consisting of wagons linked by a chain surrounded by a deep ditch ( tabor ).

The most likely site of Malfosse can be identified today as Oakwood Gill a deep ditch now traversed by the A2100 road, north of Battle.

It grew steadily: by the early 3rd century it covered an area of about, behind a deep ditch and wall.

It is roofed and covers towards the southern end several natural grottoes, which were once used as sepulchres of the Jewish type, and a ditch is hollowed out at the northern end which is sixty-eight feet long, twenty-one feet wide and thirty feet deep.

The town was surrounded by a mud wall with a circumference estimated at six miles ( Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911 ), pierced by six gates, and protected by a ditch five feet deep, filled with a dense growth of prickly acacia, the usual defence of West African strongholds.

The stones are set within a circular ditch up to deep, wide and in circumference that was carved out of the solid sandstone bedrock by the ancient residents.

A ditch deep ( to prevent prisoners tunneling out ) was placed inside the wall ( originally a wooden stockade fence, replaced with a brick wall in 1805 ) and guarded by ' silent sentries ' who could not be seen by the prisoners.

Tami dug a deep ditch linking the swamp to the sea and stretched a net across the ditch.

After hitting the back of a pickup truck, their car went into a ditch of water about a foot deep, and Perkins was lying face down in the water.

A very deep ditch or moat could be constructed in front of the walls, as was done at Pembroke Castle, or even artificial lakes, as was done at Kenilworth Castle.

A moat is a deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water, that surrounds a castle, other building or town, historically a sewage passage for the castle waste, which caused great disease.

* Valley of the Shadow of Death, a treacherous valley with a quick sand bog on one side and a deep chasm / ditch on the other side of the King's Highway going through it ( cf.

This was defended by a deep ditch, which can still be traced, and by walls, a portion of which, on the eastern side, constructed of rectangular blocks of tufa, was brought to light in 1897.

The ditch became deep and vertically sided, cut directly into the native rock or soil, laid out as a series of straight lines creating the central fortified area that gives this style of fortification its name.

Much of the fort moved underground, with deep passages and tunnels to connect the blockhouses and firing points in the ditch to the fort proper, with magazines and machine rooms deep under the surface.

The wall was built with an earthen embankment topped by a wooden stockade and protected from the south by a deep ditch.

It was in diameter and high above the bottom of a rock cut ditch which is deep.

To the northwest of Rathcroghan Mound is Rathmore ( Rath Mór, " big ringfort "), a circular earthwork consisting of a raised flat area, 30 metres across, surrounded by a sloping earth bank inside a deep ditch.

After penetrating into the city's Zalyutino district, the advance was stopped by a deep anti-tank ditch, lined with Soviet defenders, including anti-tank guns.

The park was surrounded by a deep ditch, to keep the animals in, and beyond that, a high fence to keep the general population out.

De Colmieu described how the nobles would build " a mound of earth as high as they can and dig a ditch about it as wide and deep as possible.

The scene carries deep significance: King James, on the throne when Macbeth was written, was believed to be separated from Banquo by nine generations.

North and northeast of Lake Chad, the basin extends for more than 800 kilometers, passing through regions characterized by great rolling dunes separated by very deep depressions.

The Cockpit Country is pockmarked with steep-sided hollows, as much as deep in places, which are separated by conical hills and ridges.

The mountains of Kyrgyzstan are geologically young, so that the physical terrain is marked by sharply uplifted peaks separated by deep valleys.

The terrain consists mostly of hills and mountains separated by deep, narrow valleys.

To the north, separated from the main body of mountains and plateaus by broad valleys, lies the Knuckles Massif: steep escarpments, deep gorges, and peaks rising to more than 1, 800 meters.

The stages of sleep were first described in 1937 by Alfred Lee Loomis and his coworkers, who separated the different electroencephalography ( EEG ) features of sleep into five levels ( A to E ), which represented the spectrum from wakefulness to deep sleep.

The Turks Islands are separated from the Caicos Islands by Turks Island Passage, which is more than deep ), The islands form a chain that stretches north – south.

Pemba Island is separated from Unguja island and the African continent by deep channels and has a correspondingly restricted fauna, reflecting its comparative isolation from the mainland.

The United States ' response was " very different but just as deep an instinctual reaction ... the United States have an almost neurotic sense of vulnerability ... its two coastlines, its two theatres, its two navies are separated by the entire length of the New World ... she lives with ... the nightmare of having one day to fight a decisive sea battle without the benefit of concentration, the perpetual spectre of naval ' war on two fronts '.

A characteristic in the orography of the Bernese Alps is, that whereas the western of that chain consists of a single series of summits with comparatively short projecting buttresses, the higher group presents a series of longitudinal ridges parallel to the axis of the main chain, and separated from each other by deep valleys that form the channels of great glaciers.

The platform itself is separated from the rest of the Old City by the Tyropoeon Valley, though this once deep valley is now largely hidden beneath later deposits, and is imperceptible in places.

Boone served in the North Carolina militia during this " Cherokee Uprising ", and his hunting expeditions deep into Cherokee territory beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains separated him from his wife for about two years.

The west coast is indented by two deep inlets, the northernmost, the Gulf of İzmit ( ancient Gulf of Astacus ), penetrating between 40 and 50 miles ( 65 – 80 km ) into the interior as far as İzmit ( ancient Nicomedia ), separated by an isthmus of only about 25 miles ( 40 km ) from the Black Sea ; and the Gulf of Mudanya or Gemlik ( Gulf of Cius ), about 25 miles ( 40 km ) long.

* Barrier reef – a reef separated from a mainland or island shore by a deep channel or lagoon

At this point, a pair of sandstone ridges extending east-west and separated by a deep, narrow valley, are cut through by the western Cleddau.

The Duke of York, separated from his command, narrowly avoided captured and was obliged to wade a deep brook to escape.

The leaves of the black oak are alternately arranged on the twig and are 10 – 20 cm ( 4 – 8 in ) long with 5-7 bristle tipped lobes separated by deep U-shaped notches.

A new livery was introduced in 2004, consisting of a white forward fuselage, deep blue rear fuselage ( diagonally separated ) with the sky blue at the bottom rear of the fuselage ( again, separated diagonally ).

These mountains include Kalymnos and Kappari which are separated by an underwater chasm c. 70 m ( 40 fathoms deep ), as well as the volcano of Nisyros and the surrounding islands.

Bougainville and the nearby island of Buka are a single landmass separated by a deep 300-metre-wide strait.

The southern part of the bay is protected from the deep sea by numerous deltaic small islets separated from Mafia Island by shallow and narrow channels.

The brisket muscles are sometimes separated for retail cutting: the lean " first cut " or " flat cut " is the deep pectoral, while the fattier " second cut ", " point ", " fat end ", or " triangular cut " is the superficial pectoral ).