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The ditch around the Bastille, now largely dry, supported a 36 foot ( 11 m ) high stone wall with a wooden walkway for the use of the guards, known as " la ronde ", or the round.
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Their clothing was found in the creek, some of it twisted around sticks that had been thrust into the muddy ditch bed.
In the early dawn the next day the Greeks take advantage of it to build a wall and ditch around the ships.
This first stage is dated to around 3100 BC, after which the ditch began to silt up naturally.
Typically, concrete and specially rolled HDPE plastic are the materials used to create the barrier, which is placed in a 60 – to 90-cm-deep ditch around the planting, and angled out at the top to direct the rhizomes to the surface.
The Pale boundary essentially consisted of a fortified ditch and rampart built around parts of the medieval counties of Louth, Meath, Dublin and Kildare, actually leaving half of Meath, most of Kildare, and south west Dublin on the other side.
At that time, Bergen op Zoom had fortifications built in the beginning of the 17th Century by Menno van Coehoorn, with three forts surrounding the city and a canalized diversion of the Scheldt acting as a ditch around its walls.
One of the best known nature preservations around Brasschaat is De Inslag, which includes 149 ha of woods and pastures as well as the antitank ditch mentioned above.
A ditch and ramparts were constructed around the site at this time.
The earliest feature was a large ditch which may have formed part of the defences around a promontory fort previously identified during earlier excavations near the coast at Castle Park.
Two major forts had been constructed just outside the town, one, called the Queen's Sconce, to the south-west and another, the King's Sconce to the north-east, both close to the river, together with defensive walls and a water filled ditch 2¼ miles in length, around the town.
The last element was ( first ) dalr which means " valley " or " dale ", but this was later ( around 1400 AD ) replaced by the word áll which means " ditch " or " gully ".
de Blénac was responsible for the 10-year effort that resulted in the building of a 487 meter wall around the peninsula on which the Fort stood, the wall being four meters high and two meters thick, and cutting a ditch that separated from the town.
In the pre-firearm eras, they were mainly a type of hindrance for an attacker of a fortified location, such as the moat around a castle ( this is technically called a ditch ).
While trenches have often been dug as defensive measures, in the pre-firearm era, they were mainly a type of hindrance for an attacker of a fortified location, such as the ditch ( or moat ) around a castle.
Next set up 5 or 6 fuelwoods ( about the size of your forearms in a star around the ditch with a little bit of the end sticking in over it.
Work began on cutting the ditch around Conwy Castle within days of Edward's decision.
Burckhardt says that the wall and ditch around the city had been built by Othman el Medhayfe.
The 1974 episode " A Day Out ", which features a prison work party, was filmed in and around the Welsh village of Penderyn, the prisoners ' ' ditch ' being excavated by a JCB.
The site was believed by Cunnington to consist of a central burial, surrounded first by six concentric rings of postholes, then by a single ditch and finally an outer bank, around wide.
Frelimo's political prisoners were burnt alive, while the soldiers chanted revolutionary anthems around the ditch.
Constructed around 2600 BC, during the Neolithic, or ' New Stone Age ', the monument comprises a large henge that is, a bank and a ditch.
He was able to demonstrate that the Avebury builders had dug down into the natural chalk using red deer antlers as their primary digging tool, producing a henge ditch with a high bank around its perimeter.
The next to arrive was D Troop, which had a special ladder to cross the anti-tank ditch around the battery.
A motte was protected by a ditch around it, which would typically have also been a source of the earth and soil for constructing the mound itself.
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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.
An anti-tank ditch was dug from the Stepping Stones eastwards across the fields belonging to Bradley Farm ( now Denbies vineyard ).
Finds dated back to the 12th century ; a ditch was discovered where the Selfridges store and Park Street car park are now situated.
The deaths of Latimer, Ridley and later Cranmer — now known as the Oxford Martyrs — are commemorated in Oxford by the Victorian Martyrs ' Memorial which is located near the actual execution site which is marked by a cross in Broad Street, ( then the ditch outside the city's North Gate ).
Earth could also be used as a fence ; an example was what is now called the sunken fence, or " ha-ha ," a type of wall built by digging a ditch with one steep side ( which animals cannot scale ) and one sloped side ( where the animals roam ).
The ditch on the island is now known to date from the Iron Age.
The Romans attempted to drain the marshland by digging the ditch that runs north through what is now known as the Ladygrove area north of the town near Long Wittenham.
The " common sewer " is now marked by Curtain Road, and the " ditch from the horse-pond " by New Inn Yard
The diversion dam from the T & Y ditch was recently altered to include a fish ladder, which now allows fish from the Tongue and Yellowstone Rivers below the dam to migrate upriver, for the first time in 125 years.
The ditch is on the north side, so presumably it was used by the British as a defence against West Saxons encroaching from the upper Thames Valley westward into what is now the West Country.
William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., father of former president Bill Clinton, died on Route 60 ( now Route 114 ) outside of Sikeston, Missouri after being thrown from his car and drowning in a drainage ditch.
Excavation of the inner moat, which is now lying as a dry ditch, conservation of the historical structures are parts of the ' Project ' to restore ' Kangla ' to its glorious past.
* The bridge built over the now water-filled ditch is named " Pont de la Concorde " ( Concord Bridge, as in good relations ) in the French version, a reference to the bridge in Paris of the same name.
Although they have been considered to be two cojoined long barrows, probing and aerial photography has revealed them to have a common continuous ditch ( now ploughed out ).
Current theories now focus on the site having been significant long before and after the barrow being built and that the ditch may have been that of an older henge or, more likely, hengiform monument.
Thompson took off again, and Andreotta reported that Mitchell was now executing the people in the ditch.
The Great Circle probably consisted of 30 stones, of which 27 survive today, and was surrounded by the ditch ( approximately 135m outer diameter — now filled in ) of a henge.
Subsequently more stone was brought in to increase this cairn to about 100 ft ( 30 m ) diameter, enclosing two cremation burials in inverted urns and now covering the original ditch and bank, making the whole site a tomb monument.
Lastly, inside the ditch to the east four graves considered Iron age are now thought to be early Christian because of their east-west alignment, and are dated to around 500 to 1000.
There is much evidence of the 1907 siege works in this ditch, three of the counter-mine shafts still survive, now mostly covered up with debris and rubbish ( post 1962 ).
The most substantial remains now are the brick gun tower and section of ditch from St Margaret's Street into the public gardens opposite.
On both sides the lowest pair of embrasures appear to be below ground level which indicates that originally the ditch was much deeper and more formidable than it now appears.
The ditch was partially cleared in the late 1980s by Fareham Council with volunteer help from people of the adjoining housing estate ( Fort Fareham Conservationists, now disbanded ).
The hill leading up to the Pa on the fourth side is defended by a 22-foot man made ditch which is now part of the track leading down to Back Bay where Pa inhabitants had access to shellfish.
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