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traces and buildings
Excavations made in 1879 and 1880 led to the discovery of the remains of this station, arranged round three sides of a courtyard some 100 ft. square, including traces of baths and other buildings, and a massive embanking wall above them, some 150 ft. in length, to protect them from landslips, while a discharge certificate ( tabula honestae missionis ) of sailors who had served in the Ravenna's fleet was found in some ruins here or hereabouts.
It seems to have been an acropolis, and contains no traces of buildings, except for a subterranean cistern, circular, with a beehive roof of converging blocks.
Here are the remains of a Roman town, belonging to the 1st and 2nd centuries, extending over an area of some 600 by 500 meters (( 2, 000 by 1, 600 ft ), and consisting of fine buildings along the lagoons, including a large open piscina or basin, surrounded by a double portico, while farther inland are several very large and well-preserved water-reservoirs, supplied by an aqueduct of which traces may still be seen.
The so-called Ozieri culture was present here in the 4th millennium BCE while the Nuraghe civilization was present in the area around 1500 BCE, as traces of Phoenician buildings have been found not far from the city.
The satellites and aircraft sensors will be able to penetrate cloud cover, detect chemical traces, and identify objects in buildings and " underground bunkers ", and will provide real-time video at much higher resolutions than the still-images produced by programs such as Google Earth.
The site of the arx of the ancient town was probably on the hill on which lies the contemporary Villa Spada, though no traces of early buildings or defences are to be seen ; pre-Roman tombs are in the cliffs to the north.
Archaeological digs have not revealed any traces of Roman buildings, which seems to indicate that Albi was a modest Roman settlement.
The abbey was founded in 1147 by Robert fitzHarold of Ewyas, the Lord of Ewyas Harold, possibly on the site of earlier wooden monastic buildings of which no traces remain.
Paul was also responsible for part-excavating and plotting the remaining foundations and traces of the original Abbey buildings, which now underlie the churchyard.
The factory buildings remain, but only traces of the railroad, abandoned in 1937, are left.
No remaining traces of the original earthworks remain, though a few old buildings retain curved walls that were part of the original circular layout.
Architectural activity intensified as the Mongols became sedentary, and retained traces of their nomadic origins, such as the north-south orientation of the buildings.
A few traces of older buildings also came to light during the excavations made in 1880, when the work of extending the apse was in progress, but nothing was published of real value or importance.
The row of brick buildings that form the Colonnade, which traces to 1824, is a U. S. National Historic Landmark.
There are traces of a Roman fort underneath the later buildings.
Gypsum cement that was " light grey and contained sand, clay, traces of calcium carbonate, and a high percentage of lime " was used in the construction of wells, drains and on the exteriors of " important looking buildings.
Out celebrating a successful hunt in 1837, the Marquess of Waterford and his hunting party found several tins of red paint which they daubed liberally on to the buildings of the High Street, some traces of which can still be seen on doors of older buildings in the town.
Others were restored to estimates of 18th-century appearance, with traces of later buildings and improvements removed.
The Nazis destroyed traces of Polish culture, destroying historical records, monuments, and buildings.
No other examples of this form survive at Angkor, although there are traces of similar buildings at Ta Prohm and Banteay Kdei.
The church's site has been used for worship for at least 2, 000 years ; traces of Roman and pagan religious buildings have been discovered under the foundations of the present church, along with the remains of an Anglo-Saxon wooden structure.
On Stiklestad, however, the soil is deep soil with some clay, and georadar has been used in 2008, showing traces of large buildings, but not much to indicate a battlefield.
The station building of Stroud Green railway station still survives, but there are no traces of the trackside buildings.

traces and walls
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.
This was often a historic form, the effect of successive growth over long time with concentric traces of town walls and citadels.
The street traces the Roman city walls erected by Emperor Maximian.
The church, with a single nave, has traces of the ancient frescoes ( 13th century ), which probably covered all the walls.
Afterwards a population to whom bronze was known left traces in earthen walls and kitchen-middens on the Aniva Bay.
The castle has Guelph merlons and stands on a commanding point, where traces of ancient settlements ( including Samnite walls ) have been found.
The discovery consisted of formidable walls, some stretching for as well as traces of a large city with an area of several square kilometers.
Substantially, all the phases of the Modern History affect the castle and left their traces on its walls.
At that time it was buried up to half its height, and traces of this can be observed in the interior, where Turkish inscriptions may be found on the walls.
It had been thought that the old abbey had been completely demolished ; however, following renovations after World War II traces of the old abbey were found at lower levels of the existing walls.
Although the original city of Byzantium certainly had sea walls, traces of which survive, the exact date for the construction of the medieval walls is a matter of debate.
Of the walls John built at the same time to fortify the town, no traces remain.
The small ruins of the terraced dwellings, immediately outside the perimeter of the current fortress walls on the north-eastern flank are, however, confirmed to be traces of authentic former Cathar habitations.
The densely-inhabited town, built of stone, is of decidedly medieval aspect, and is enclosed in a circuit of medieval walls on Roman foundations, including three Roman Late Antique gates ( Porta Consolare, Porta di Venere and the " Arch of Augustus ") and traces of three more, remains of an amphitheater, as well several medieval gates.
The units were just a small timer combined with an electrical heater wire that heated the freezer's walls for a short amount of time to remove all traces of frost / frosting.
The inner walls along the rim of Behaim still displays traces of old, worn terraces.
Records from that excavation have been lost, though it is known that they revealed " traces of palisade walls ".
Remains of a Roman theatre ( first half of the 2nd century ) are visible, and remains of many other buildings have been discovered, among them traces of the ancient city walls, a fine mosaic, found in 1852 but at once destroyed, and a number of tombs to the west of the theatre.
Foyle College traces its origins to 1617 and the establishment of the Free Grammar School at Society Street within the city walls of Derry by Mathias Springham of the Merchant Taylors ' Company of London.
Similar traces of brickworks walls are discoverable ; it is said, in most places within a distance of three or four miles from the town of Wolleh.
Also traces of the Etruscan walls ( c. 8th century BC ) exist: they had a length of some 8 km.

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