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remains and ramparts
Little remains of the castle structures that once stood here, save its stone ramparts and the base of a keep.
A section of the ramparts remains intact on the western side of the town, converted into a park known as the jardin public ( public garden ).
The remains of the moat and the ramparts of Rolle Castle were uncovered in 1985.
At the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, the eastern exit simply cut through the remains of the ramparts and crossed a moat.
The site on which Lexden now stands was crossed by the fortifications of iron age Colchester, the remains of the earthen ramparts can be seen at Bluebottle Grove, Lexden Park and alongside Straight Road.
* Most Roman remains were used in the construction of the fortifications, but two squares are embellished with lofty marble columns ; a Roman tower stands on the eastern side of the town ; and some remains of a Roman aqueduct may be seen outside the ramparts.
Of the original castle only the remains of the keep and several moats and ramparts remain today.
There are traces of earthen ramparts on the landward side, and remains of a structure which may have been a guard's cell.
Penza was founded as a fortress, and to this day, remnants of the Lomovskaya sentry line built in 1640 have been preserved at the western edge of the city, and remains of earth ramparts dating from the mid-16th century are preserved in the city center.
On the bank of the Gère are traces of the ramparts of the old Roman city, and on Mont Pipet ( east of the town ) are the remains of a Roman theatre, while the ruined thirteenth century castle there was built on Roman footings.
Nothing remains of the town except some ruined segments of castle ramparts.
Of the former ramparts little more remains to be seen, the three former city gates were demolished.
The remains of 170 round stone huts and ramparts are still visible on top of the hill.
All that remains are the entrance tower and vestiges of the donjon and ramparts.
The remains consist of massive collapsed stone ramparts that take advantage of the topography of the Hill.
Byzantine sources name the local fortress Gerania ; there are 4-7 century AD remains of massive stone ramparts and a basilica along the edge of the Franga plateau.

remains and still
You'd never guess it from the way they've played so far this spring, but there remains a feeling among some around here that the Orioles still have a chance to battle for the pennant in 1961.
We take the position, however, that the third choice still remains the only sane one open to us.
The sequence of events leading to his important discovery still remains ambiguous but it seems that one of the advanced students at the university related that the first direct event that led to the publication of Oersted's discovery occurred during a private lecture made before a group of other advanced students in the spring of 1820.
He locked his equipment in a cabinet where it still remains.
The perplexing question still remains as to why the middle classes turn to the churches as a vehicle of social identity when their clubs and charities should fill the same need.
Publisher Richardson has updated the Blue Book `` but it still remains the compact reference book used by so many for those ever-changing telephone numbers, addresses, other residences, club affiliations and marriages ''.
Despite progress since the Soviet era, the unemployment rate still hovers near 30 % and there remains a huge gulf between actual and potential Gross Domestic Product.
After his death, the king was buried in the church which he had built ; his original tomb has been lost, while his alleged remains are preserved in the shrine where he was reburied after being declared a saint ; his saintliness, however, was never very widely acknowledged outside the bishopric of Liège where he may still be venerated by tradition.
Perfumes can still be found with ambergris around the world, it is collected from remains found at sea and on beaches, although its precursor originates from the sperm whale, which is a vulnerable species.
In this case, the adhesive remains intact and is still bonded to one substrate and remnants of the other.
An image of the Indian rhinoceros, the image has such force that it remains one of his best-known and was still used in some German school science text-books as late as last century.
The polygonal walls of the acropolis may still be seen in a fair state of preservation on a circular hill standing about above the little plain of Exarcho ; one gateway remains, and there are also traces of town walls below.
Little remains of the claustral buildings of the Abbey except for the impressive gatehouse, which stretches between the south-west corner of the church and a defensive tower on the High Street, and the still complete Abbot's House, a building of the 13th, 15th and 16th centuries, which is the best-preserved of its type in Scotland.
The ruins of the town may still be seen on Cape Balastra ; they cover seven small hills, and extend from an eastern to a western harbor ; on the southwestern hills are the remains of the medieval settlement of Polystylon.
This line, the Durand Line, is named after Mortimer Durand and which still remains as an unrecognized boundary by the Government of Afghanistan.
During the final years of the 19th century, while ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was still officially a prisoner and confined to ` Akka, he organized the transfer of the remains of the Báb from Iran to Palestine.
Despite its rapid growth, the economy of Benin still remains underdeveloped and dependent on subsistence agriculture, cotton production, and regional trade.
It is still used in metric English-speaking countries ( such as Canada ), and remains the standard unit of classification for air conditioning units manufactured and sold in many non-English-speaking metric countries.
" Black and Tan " or " Tan " remains a pejorative term for the British in Ireland, and they are still despised by many in Ireland.
This edition, also called the " Black-Cover Book of Common Prayer " 黑皮公禱書 because of its black cover, still remains in use after the establishment of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui ( Anglican province in Hong Kong ).
While he was still on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and before being named to the U. S. Supreme Court, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. published a short volume called The Common Law, which remains a classic in the field.
The central bank of Sweden (" Sveriges Riksbank " or simply " Riksbanken ") was founded in Stockholm from the remains of the failed bank Stockholms Banco in 1664 and answered to the parliament (" Riksdag of the Estates ") thus making it the oldest central bank still operating today.
However, as to whether inductive or deductive reasoning is more valuable still remains a matter of debate, with the general conclusion being that neither is prominent.
If a second compression test is performed shortly thereafter, and the new reading is much higher, it would be the ring seal that is problematic, whereas if the compression test pressure observed remains low, it is a valve sealing ( or more rarely head gasket, or breakthrough piston or rarer still cylinder wall damage ) issue.
The Kuomintang retreated to the island of Taiwan, where it still remains to this day.

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