Look up earthwork in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Earthworks may refer to: Earthworks (archaeology), human-made constructions that modify the land...

Newark Earthworks in Newark and Heath, Ohio, consist of three sections of preserved earthworks: the Great Circle Earthworks, the Octagon Earthworks, and...

Earthworks are engineering works created through the processing of parts of the earth's surface involving quantities of soil or unformed rock. An incomplete...

world's second longest man-made structure, as well as the most extensive earthwork in the world by the Guinness Book of Records, 1974. The walls may have...

archaeology, earthworks are artificial changes in land level, typically made from piles of artificially placed or sculpted rocks and soil. Earthworks can themselves...

railway, or landscape and garden improvements, or surface drainage. The earthworks created for such a purpose are often called the sub-grade or finished...

Aetna Earthworks, also known as the Missaukee Earthworks or Missaukee Mounds, is an archaeological site consisting of a pair of circular earthworks designated...

The Robert Morris Earthwork is a 1979 public art earthworks installation in Seatac, Washington by Robert Morris. The area surrounding the piece, a former...

A henge can be one of three related types of Neolithic earthwork. The essential characteristic of all three is that they feature a ring-shaped bank and...

linear earthwork is a long bank of earth, sometimes with a ditch alongside. There may also be a palisade along the top of the bank. Linear earthworks may...

Bill Bruford's Earthworks were a British jazz band led by drummer Bill Bruford. The band recorded several albums for Editions EG, Discipline Global Mobile...

calculating cut and fill. A simple approach involves defining different earthworks features in a computer program and then adjusting elevations manually...

The Earthworks is a play by playwright Tom Morton-Smith. It premiered with the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, in May...

The Stubbs Earthworks (33 WA 1) (also known as Bigfoot Earthworks and Warren County Serpent Mound) was a massive Ohio Hopewell culture (100 BCE to 500...

The Boven Earthworks, also known as the Boven Enclosure, the Mosquito Creek Earthworks, the Falmouth Inclosure, or Missaukee III is a Native American archaeological...

National Historical Park is a United States national historical park with earthworks and burial mounds from the Hopewell culture, indigenous peoples who flourished...

The Kiusu Earthwork Burial Circles (キウス周堤墓群, Kiusu shūtei bogun) is an archaeological site with multiple burial mounds believed to have been constructed...

A terrace in agriculture is a flat surface that has been cut into hills or mountains to provide areas for the cultivation for crops, as a method of more...

Offa's Dyke (Welsh: Clawdd Offa) is a large linear earthwork that roughly follows the border between England and Wales. The structure is named after Offa...

National Monument (French: Pointe de Pauvreté; 16 WC 5) is a prehistoric earthwork constructed by the Poverty Point culture, located in present-day northeastern...

Land art, variously known as Earth art, environmental art, and Earthworks, is an art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, largely associated with...

The Portsmouth Earthworks are a large prehistoric mound complex constructed by the Native American Adena and Ohio Hopewell cultures of eastern North America...

The Cush Earthworks are a series of earthworks, and a National Monument, located in County Limerick, Ireland. The Cush Earthworks are located on the western...

extensive Outer City earthworks. Other earthworks are spread out across Edo State (known as the rural iya), and all of these earthworks are sometimes referred...

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tradition era are earthwork mounds. Researchers have speculated about their purposes and debate continues. Great geometric earthworks are some of the most...

The Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks is a public park, storm water detention dam and Modernist "masterpiece" of environmental art located in Kent, Washington...

Dyke, historic earthwork dividing Mercia and Wales Wansdyke, dividing Wessex from the lands southwest of it Wat's Dyke, an earthwork running through...

Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks are a World Heritage Site in the United States preserving eight monumental earthworks constructed by the Hopewell tradition...

staying on with the company for several years. In the late 1980s he formed Earthworks, producing studio microphones, preamplifiers and studio reference monitors...

an earthwork which has been scheduled as an ancient monument in Over Stowey, Somerset, England situated on the Quantock Hills. A linear earthwork consisting...

Wansdyke (from Woden's Dyke) is a series of early medieval defensive linear earthworks in the West Country of England, consisting of a ditch and a running embankment...

of desert, with 3-metre-tall (10 ft) berms bulldozed to form perimeter earthworks. Kabals are located less than 80 kilometres (50 mi) from the Iraqi border...

Dilmun, a hierarchical organized political structure existed. In 1966, an earthwork in Tarout exposed an ancient burial field that yielded a large statue...

Star Axis is an earthwork by American sculptor Charles Ross designed for observing the stars and considered to be a defining example of land art. The...

Fortification is a Civil War earthwork in Big Hill Pond State Park, which is located in McNairy County, Tennessee. The earthwork was built atop a ridge by...

The South Flats earthwork enclosure is one of less than 10 intact earthworks. Located in Western Michigan alongside the Muskegon River, it was originally...

earthwork. After a series of repetitions, mortuary/earthwork/mortuary/earthwork, a quite prominent earthwork would remain. In the later Adena period, circular...

The Marietta Earthworks is an archaeological site located at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers in Washington County, Ohio, United States...

erecting fortifications or building Ships of War." He raised money to create earthwork defenses and buy artillery. The largest of these was the "Association...

Wat's Dyke (Welsh: Clawdd Wat) is a 40-mile (64 km) linear earthwork running through the northern Welsh Marches from Basingwerk Abbey on the River Dee...

The photographs played a critical role in preserving and promoting the earthwork's growing renown, acting as the primary connection between the object and...

In civil engineering, a cut or cutting is where soil or rock from a relative rise is removed. Cuts are typically used in road, rail, and canal construction...

A defensive fighting position is a type of earthwork constructed in a military context, generally large enough to accommodate anything from one soldier...

the tree-lined earthwork was carried out in March 1998, but found that establishing the archaeological significance of the earthwork was difficult, considering...

boundaries at some point in history: the Kremlin walls, Zemlyanoy Gorod (Earthwork Town), the Kamer-Kollezhsky Rampart, the Garden Ring, and the small railway...

of the second story of a machiya is generally not made of wood, but of earthwork, with a distinctive style of window known as mushiko mado (虫籠窓, lit. 'insect...

The Southwold Earthworks is the remains of a pre-contact village site of the Neutral people, occupied about AD 1450 to 1550. The entrance to the site is...

Scots' Dike or dyke is a three and a half mile / 5.25 km long linear earthwork, constructed by the English and the Scots in 1552 to mark the division...

occupation dating to 10,000 years BCE. Before 200 AD, people were building earthwork platform mounds for ceremonial and religious purposes. Succeeding peoples...

restored between 2002 and 2008, with new stones added, and the surrounding earthworks rebuilt. The name "Devil's Quoits" is associated with a legend that states...

Broken Circle/Spiral Hill is an earthwork sculpture by the American artist Robert Smithson. It was created for the 1971 Sonsbeek outdoor sculpture exhibition...

Hill or Trendle Hill. Atop the hill is another landmark, the Iron Age earthwork known as the "Trendle" or "Frying Pan". The figure's outline is formed...

Worm's Ditch (Irish: Claí na Péiste) is a series of discontinuous linear earthworks in southwest Ulster and northeast Connacht, Ireland. Remnants can be found...

Priddy Circles are a linear arrangement of four circular earthwork enclosures near the village of Priddy on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. The...

was based upon the circular Hopewell tradition earthwork within which the city was built. This earthwork measured 1,100 ft (340 m) in diameter, and was...

Earthworks, also called the Bull Ring, are a series of earthworks, and a National Monument, located in County Offaly, Ireland. The Clonin Earthworks are...

The Hopeton Earthworks are an Ohio Hopewell culture archaeological site consisting of mounds and earthwork enclosures. It is located on the eastern bank...

Kentucky. While the two had many similarities, the distinctive ceremonial earthwork mounds constructed in the former's centers were not part of the culture...

American Mississippian culture, which built numerous temple and residential earthwork mounds on both sides of the Mississippi River. Their major regional center...

The Biggs Site (15Gp8), also known as the Portsmouth Earthworks Group D, is an Adena culture archaeological site located near South Shore in Greenup County...

Fort Tompkins, also known as Fort Adams, was an earthwork fort in Buffalo, New York overlooking the Niagara River. Built in August 1812 on top of the...

The Suez Canal (/ˈsuː.ɛz/; Egyptian Arabic: قناة السويس, Qanāt as-Suwais) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea...

Earthworks is a 1965 dystopian science fiction novel by British science fiction author Brian Aldiss. The novel draws its premise from prevalent fears about...

Earthworks is the first album by Bill Bruford's Earthworks, a jazz fusion band led by drummer Bill Bruford with keyboardist and trumpeter Django Bates...

Harpagus captured Lycia, Aeolia and Caria, using the technique of building earthworks to breach the walls of besieged cities, a method unknown to the Greeks...

The sites of the Memot Circular Earthworks are located mostly in discrete eastern Cambodia and border of Vietnam in spaces between lowlands and uplands...

mound builders. Their complex, large and technologically sophisticated earthworks can be found in modern-day Marietta, Newark, and Circleville. They were...

Grim's Ditch or Grim's Dyke or Grimes Dike is a linear earthwork in the London Borough of Harrow, in the historic county of Middlesex. Thought to have...

them from taking the Lisbon Peninsula by the construction of massive earthworks, known as the Lines of Torres Vedras, which had been assembled in complete...

cross-ridge dyke, covered way, linear ditch, linear earthwork or spur dyke) is a linear earthwork believed to be a prehistoric land boundary that usually...

of Ireland. Although Thomas Burgh (1670–1730) had engineered a larger earthwork star fort quite close by in 1710, by the 1730s, the then Lord Lieutenant...

began in the third millennium BC. Prehistoric evidence are the "circular earthworks" discovered in the red soils near Memot and in the adjacent region of...

A breastwork is a temporary fortification, often an earthwork thrown up to breast or shoulder height to provide protection to defenders firing over it...

Fort Ellsworth was a timber and earthwork fortification constructed west of Alexandria, Virginia, as part of the defenses of Washington, D.C. during the...

contact, they were the Caddoan Mississippian culture, who constructed huge earthwork mounds at several sites in this territory, flourishing about 800 to 1400...

The Shriver Circle Earthworks (33 RO 347) are an Ohio Hopewell culture (200 BCE to 500 CE) archaeological site located in Chillicothe in Ross County, Ohio...

had been done. By this time, Griffin had revised his plan, overseen the earthworks of major avenues and established the Glenloch Cork Plantation. The Commonwealth...

Trendle Ring (or Trundle Ring) is a late prehistoric earthwork on the Quantock Hills near Bicknoller in Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Monument...

1860s, visitors described the deteriorated "fort" as little more than an earthwork in the shape of a small bastion, and reported holes dug nearby in search...

of earthwork is completed as of 28 June. Jan 2022: 50% of the earthwork and 34% of construction work has been completed. Aug 2022: 75% of earthwork and...

individual residences. Still, they are known for their surviving massive earthwork mounds, built for religious, political and social reasons, in platform...

The Vallum is a huge earthwork associated with Hadrian's Wall in England. Unique on any Roman frontier, it runs practically from coast to coast to the...

Shaler Battery was a hilltop earthwork fortification built during the American Civil War in Northern Kentucky by the Union Army to turn back invading...

seasonal hunter-gatherers from around this time organized to build complex earthwork constructions in what is now northern Louisiana. The Watson Brake site...

known as Knowlton Henges or Knowlton Rings) are a complex of henges and earthworks in Knowlton, Dorset, England. The henge enclosing Knowlton Church is the...

the Huntington area of Fairfax County, Virginia. It was a timber and earthwork fortification constructed south of Alexandria, Virginia as part of the...

and enclosures, creating the single largest earthwork complex in the Ohio River Valley. The Newark Earthworks, designated a National Historic Landmark,...

A platform mound is any earthwork or mound intended to support a structure or elevate an activity. It typically refers to a flat-topped mound whose sides...

5400 years ago (approx. 3500 BCE), Watson Brake is considered the oldest earthwork mound complex in North America. It is older than the Ancient Egyptian...

Troyville Earthworks (16 CT 7) is a Woodland period Native American archaeological site with components dating from 100 BCE to 700 CE during the Baytown...

village of Quarrendon in the late middle ages is preserved among the earthworks which can be seen in the area today. At this time the village consisted...

communities developed complex societies. The Mound Builders created large earthworks, such as at Watson Brake and Poverty Point, which date to 3500 BCE and...

allowing earthwork surveys to become far more useful. These time dependent characteristics on battlefields can typologically identify and date earthworks. This...

the surrounding earthworks with stone walls. A planned settlement was established alongside the castle, surrounded by its own earthworks and walls, and...

schanze (German: [ˈʃantsə] ) is a protective fortification, such as an earthwork, often placed on a mound as a defensive work for artillery, It was used...

chose not to remain involved with Yes and returned to his jazz project Earthworks. In 1993, the album Symphonic Music of Yes was released, featuring orchestrated...

Company Site (33FR12), also known as the Fort Reserve earthwork, was an Early Adena culture earthwork located in the Clintonville neighborhood in the city...

The Civil War Earthworks at Tallahatchie Crossing is a Civil War earthwork in Marshall County, Mississippi. The earthworks are located on federal land...

Cranmore Castle is an Iron Age earthwork situated on a hillside above the Devon town of Tiverton in south-west England. Its National Grid reference is...

covering some 12 ha. The area is still delimited by the ancient defensive earthwork, which once must have stretched farther south to the hill fort at Borgberget...

redoubt on the northwest corner and five cannon. The fort was a square earthwork of 15 acres (6.1 ha) with four corner bastions. It had a barracks, officers'...

Aldborough Castle was a medieval earthwork fortification located in Aldborough, North Yorkshire. The remains of the structure, primarily a circular mound...

the city. Chinese military engineers began to establish a number of mud earthworks on the riverbank, sank junks to create blockships on the river, and started...

A causewayed enclosure is a type of large prehistoric earthwork common to the early Neolithic in Europe. It is an enclosure marked out by ditches and...

in the late 18th century. The site includes some massive rectangular earthwork enclosures of the late Middle Kingdom or Second Intermediate Period. They...

only earthworks, fragments, or nothing remains include: Llangewydd Castle Nolton Castle, Bridgend Stormy Castle Castles of which only earthworks or nothing...

ditch linear earthworks across England. They are of different dates and may have had different functions. The purpose of these earthworks remains a mystery...

Nico Ditch is a six-mile (9.7 km) long linear earthwork between Ashton-under-Lyne and Stretford in Greater Manchester, England. It was dug as a defensive...

solstice and sunset on the winter solstice. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the densest complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments...

was largely superseded by alternative forms of fortification, but the earthworks remain a prominent feature in many countries. A motte-and-bailey castle...

people or archaeological culture but refers to the characteristic mound earthworks that indigenous peoples erected for an extended period of more than 5...

Cranmore Castle in Devon is an Iron Age earthwork. Like many scheduled monuments, it blends into the landscape, and may not be evident even to those crossing...

fortifications. It was completed in early 1813. The fort had a mile-long earthwork connecting the main seven-gun battery in the southeast with an outer battery...

Monks Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the Americas and the largest pyramid north of Mesoamerica. The beginning of its construction dates...

City wall exceeded 30 kilometers, while the Outer Enclosure—a series of earthworks and gates protecting the suburbs—covered approximately 230 km2 (89 sq mi)...

held off the Confederate attackers, though giving up some of the lower earthworks on the lower part of Culp's Hill. Early was similarly unprepared when...

Mound, located at the Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois, is the largest Precolumbian earthwork north of Mesoamerica and a World Heritage Site....

4000 BC saw the development of new ground-stone tools the building of earthwork mounds and middens, suggesting that settlements were becoming more permanent...

Elmley Castle was a late 11th-century earthwork and timber castle which received stone additions in the 12th and possibly 13th centuries, located 0.5...

its name from Lake Mayaimi. The Mayaimis built ceremonial and village earthwork mounds around Lake Okeechobee similar to those of the Mississippian culture...

its monumental building tradition of substantial timber roundhouses and earthwork enclosures. Very little late Roman pottery has been found there. The Romans...

hill it was built on. There are three entrances into the earthwork. The top part of the earthwork is described as enclosing a small circle, one hundred feet...

its tributaries. The hierarchical societies built complexes with large earthwork ceremonial and burial mounds as expressions of their sophisticated culture...

Indians were of Israelite descent. European descended settlers took note of earthworks left behind by the Mound Builder cultures and had some difficulty believing...

larger site. Some other sources are more specific as to what sort of earthwork it may be, suggesting that the dyke protects one side of an oppidum (a...

Pärssinen; Denise Schaan; Alceu Ranzi (2009). "Pre-Columbian geometric earthworks in the upper Purús: a complex society in western Amazonia". Antiquity...

Fort Lincoln was one of seven temporary earthwork forts of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, DC built in the Northeast quadrant of the city at the...

hypothesized to have connected two Hopewell culture (100 BCE–500 CE) earthwork monuments located in Newark and Chillicothe, a distance of 60 miles (97 km)...

(administrative centre) of the barony of Bathgate. Today, only the motte and some earthworks survive, and the site lies within the grounds of a modern golf course...

Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey probably started to build the castle, an earthwork motte and bailey structure during the Anarchy, the civil war between Stephen...

the isolated Santa Monica Mountains. The project includes two bridges, earthwork, and 13 acres (5.3 ha) of habitat restoration. Over the last several decades...

The Warbanks are an archaeological site comprising irregular earthworks that straddle the A134 in the Suffolk parishes of Lawshall, Cockfield and Shimpling...

connected to Fort Fish, by earthworks along the Old Post Road. At the line of 107th Street and Sixth Avenue (Lenox Avenue), the earthworks led to a gatehouse...

released over 15 albums since the early 2000s. Erlewine is part of the Earthwork Music collective, an independent label which promotes original music from...

seminarians by narrating about the ancient Lithuania and especially its earthwork mounds. Later, many of the Seminary students were active in Lithuanian...

real-time strategy video game developed and published by Australian studio EarthWork Games. It was released on April 19, 2017. Forts started development in...

from the University of Manchester carried out a measured survey of the earthworks in 1997. STAG also conducted a geophysical survey in 2005 and established...

"Chichester Dyke, Broyle earthwork, section extending 430yds (393m) through East Broyle Copse, to railway, and earthwork extending 400yds (365m) from...

weight to resist the force of impounded water; embankment dams are large earthworks consisting of rocks, clay, sand, soil, or gravel; buttress dams consist...

Elizabeth (Ukrainian: Фортеця Святої Єлисавети, also known locally as "earthworks") is a former earthen fortress in the form of a six-pointed star in the...

national press attention. Within the boundaries of the farm are the remains (earthworks) of Fordhall castle, a scheduled Norman ringwork-and-bailey castle. The...

henge or へんげ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Henges are neolithic earthworks. Henge may also refer to: Henge (film) (Japanese: へんげ, romanized: Henge...

cities from the 1st millennium BC, due to the city walls being visible as earthworks even prior to the first excavations in 1899. The historian Herodotus wrote...

simple, but huge, curvilinear animal and human figures. In total, the earthwork project is huge and complex: the area encompassing the lines is nearly...

future site of Fort Norfolk. The fort was reconstructed in 1794 as an earthwork bastion fort under what was later termed the first system of US fortifications...

diameter and 2.8 hectares (6.9 acres) in area, surrounded by a circular earthwork bank 3.5 m (11 ft) high. At least three of the five irregularly spaced...

cultures that were primarily nomadic organized over generations to build earthwork mounds at seasonal settlements as early as 3400 BC. Rather than a succession...

and has two main components: the Golden Eagle earthwork and the Toppmeyer habitation site. The earthwork, which dates from the Middle Woodland period (150...

Blues (Unknown, 2002; re-released Earthwork Music, 2004) River Mouth (Earthwork Music, 2003) Uprooted Oak (Earthwork Music, 2005) The Broken Tongue (Chasma...

19th-century conceptions of landscape architecture which influenced the pivotal earthwork explorations which characterized his later work. He eventually joined...

enclosed defensive emplacement outside a larger fort, usually relying on earthworks, although some are constructed of stone or brick. It is meant to protect...

number of the smaller maar craters and tuff rings were also removed during earthworks. Most of the remaining volcanic centres are now preserved within recreational...

time exploring the Forest, where he was fascinated both by the Iron Age earthworks at Loughton Camp and Ambresbury Banks and by the Early Modern Hunting...

Infantry was the only force in Worth's division to reach the Mexican earthworks. Longstreet carried the regimental banner under heavy Mexican fire. The...

known as Germantown Fort, or Big Twin Works, is a prehistoric hilltop earthwork located in Warren and Montgomery Counties in southwestern Ohio. It was...

specially designed to execute construction tasks, most frequently involving earthwork operations or other large construction tasks. Heavy equipment usually...

Totternhoe Castle is a Norman castle in Totternhoe, Bedfordshire. Only earthworks survive. It is a Scheduled Monument, and part of Totternhoe Knolls Site...

Stables is an archaeological site in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The earthwork known as the King's Stables is a Scheduled Historic Monument in the townland...

impending arrival of the Japanese by fortifying their position with trenches, earthworks including six redoubts protected by abatis and by the flooding of surrounding...

Woodhay Castle was a Norman castle in West Woodhay, Berkshire, Merseyside. Earthworks exist today. William FitzSwale built West Woodhay Castle as a non-defensive...

A shell scrape is a type of military earthwork dug at a shallow but sufficient depth in the ground where a soldier can take shelter from weapons fire...

Infrastructure Subgroup: Division 30 — RESERVED FOR FUTURE EXPANSION Division 31 — Earthwork Division 32 — Exterior Improvements Division 33 — Utilities Division 34...

(“city”), is an extensive alignment of ditches and berms comprising ancient earthworks located in the interlacustrine region of southwestern Uganda. Situated...

and Prentiss counties in northern Mississippi. This complex was made of earthwork mounds. The complex of eight dome-shaped, tumulus burial mounds was in...

promontory overlooking downtown Frankfort, Kentucky. It is the site of two earthwork forts from the American Civil War. Fort Hill is on the National Register...

was the northern route to the settlement. To the west and east of the earthworks can be seen the ridge and furrow pattern, of the open-field system of...

Wormegay Castle is a motte and bailey earthwork, located next to the village of Wormegay in the English county of Norfolk. The castle was probably built...

July. Further north, X Corps captured part of the Leipzig Redoubt (an earthwork fortification), failed opposite Thiepval and had a great but temporary...

Lovecraft Earthworks (archaeology) – General term to describe artificial changes in land level in history and pre-history Platform mound – Earthwork or mound...

The walls of Lucca are a series of stone, brick, and earthwork fortifications surrounding the central city of Lucca in Tuscany, Italy. They are among...

A rockfall protection embankment is an earthwork built in elevation with respect to the ground to intercept falling rock fragments before elements at...

closed the mine, and since has been recovered as scrap, leaving only earthworks in places. Virgin Australia provided two weekly flights up to 31 October...

the rebellion, although they were responsible for the complex defensive earthworks and trenches around Fédon's camp. It is likely that Fedon and his comrades...

the settlement, a substantial feature running south-east. Most of the earthworks are to the south-west of this: there are three or more house platforms...

diet with the plants of the Eastern Agricultural Complex. They built earthworks such as Watson Brake (4000 BCE) and Poverty Point (3600 BCE), both in...

Earthwork (often referred to simply as Overton Down) is a long-term project in experimental archaeology in Wiltshire, England. In 1960 an earthwork was...

session work, and believing Bruford to be more concerned with his jazz band Earthworks than Crimson, Fripp decided the next phase of King Crimson would be a...

immediately west of Grange Farm. In the adjoining field to the west are the earthworks of the village. There is a west–east roadway, shown by a ditch of length...

linen manufacturing district. Dromore has the remains of a castle and earthworks, although these have modern buildings surrounding them, a large motte...

topographical survey of the castle in the 2010s. Today only the unfinished earthworks remain of the castle, which have scheduled monument status. Castles in...

Bell Beaker period. In 2016 archaeologists discovered a large circular earthwork enclosure in southern Spain near Carmona (Sevilla), dating from the Bell...

American Midwest. The various versions of the myth held that the massive earthworks of the Mississippi Valley, like Grave Creek Mound and the Great Serpent...

were among the first to publicize the existence of extensive prehistoric earthworks constructed in the Amazon, especially in the Llanos de Moxos. A large...

the borderlands as much as Offa's Dyke, a stronger and longer boundary earthwork erected by order of Offa of Mercia between AD 757 and 796. The Dyke still...

were built of stone, most early castles were motte-and-bailey castles of earthwork and timber, which could be constructed quickly. Some were later rebuilt...

Nanih Waiya mound and a nearby cave as their sacred origin location. The earthwork mound of Nanih Waiya is about 25 feet (7.6 m) tall, 140 feet (43 m) wide...

SMASH. He was the co-founder and owner of Damajive Studios, co-owner of Earthworks Studios, and the founder and owner of the current studio and production...

Retrieved December 22, 2025. Young, Michael; Pruznick, Matt (June 2, 2023). "Earthwork Underway at 111 Washington Street in Financial District, Manhattan". New...

Japanese gardens, Hopewell Indian earthen mounds and works by American earthworks artists of the 1960s and the 1970s". Maya Lin was born in Athens, Ohio...

The Oak Mounds is a large prehistoric earthwork mound, and a smaller mound to the west. They are located outside Clarksburg, in Harrison County, West...

prehistoric Shawnee Reservation Mound, one of three remaining Adena-era earthwork mounds and enclosures found in an eight-mile stretch along the river....

also appears in Irish mythology. Tara consists of numerous monuments and earthworks—dating from the Neolithic to the Iron Age—including a passage tomb (the...

documentation of a fort on the island as well as several surrounding earthworks. Further plans to improve the fortifications on Governor's Island were...

have been developed into Inohana Park. The castle ruins, including its earthworks and moats, have been designated as a cultural property of the city. The...

House Farm, with barns and agricultural buildings encroaching on the earthworks. There remains the lower walls of a fortified house, which might date...

and the later Christian chapel site. The 'Giant's Hedge' is an ancient earthwork which runs over 15 kilometres (9 miles) westwards from Looe to the Fowey...

dual lanes expressway – 2 x 262 20,000,000 m3 (710,000,000 cu ft) of earthworks, 4,000,000 m2 (43,000,000 sq ft) of crushed rock and soil cement base...

organizations. Faculty and students built the Haskell Medicine Wheel Earthwork in 1992, and the Haskell-Baker Wetlands are important for migrating birds...

near Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia in White County. The site contains two earthwork mounds located on top of a natural hilltop. The Kenimer site is located...

Renhold Castle also known as Howbury, earthwork at Water End Farm, was a medieval castle located in the village of Renhold, in the hundred of Barford...

of Soweto Volume One, is a compilation album released in 1985 on the Earthworks label by Jumbo Vanrenen featuring musicians from South Africa, including...

The Spruce Run Earthworks is an archaeological site located in the central part of the U.S. state of Ohio, in Delaware County. It is believed to have been...

traditionally to decide local issues. In Anglo-Saxon England, a low ring-shaped earthwork served as a moot hill or moot mound, where the elders of the hundred would...

usually called the Burghaldenschloss (motte-and-bailey castle). Only earthworks exist today. It stood on the Schlossberg (castle hill) above the city...

be explained by the practice in the Ancient Roman era of consolidating earthworks through trampling with the heel of the foot.[19] It is not known for certain...

known in part for his support of minimalism, pop art, conceptual art, and earthworks, but his aesthetic acceptance and support of photography presaged the...

mudstones appear beneath the main upper bed of sandstone. The linear earthwork known as Senghenydd Dyke stretches across the eastern side of the hill...

earthwork of the Danes) is a system of Danish fortifications in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. This historically important linear defensive earthwork across...

Pict's Dyke or Celt's Dyke in south-west lowland Scotland is a linear earthwork that roughly follows the contours that divide upland pasture from lowland...

The Wolf Plains Group is a Late Adena culture group of 30 earthworks including 22 conical mounds and nine circular enclosures. The Plains, originally known...

kitchen and living accommodation at the rear. An additional defensive earthwork was constructed around it during the 17th century. The design of the castle...

Kansas) is an American crop artist and painter who creates images, or earthworks, on large areas of land, especially in Kansas. His work is sometimes called...

park. In 1976, a study called "An Integrated Astronomical Complex of Earthworks at Wandlebury and Hatfield Forest from the Third Millenium B.C." was published...

the castle's education centre. Surrounding the whole castle are large earthworks, designed by the Italian Federigo Gianibelli, and begun in the year before...

House is a single storey, 888 square metre house built to resemble an earthwork. Fayland House was designed by David Chipperfield Architects for Mike...

bailey castle with an additional rectangular enclosure now surviving as an earthwork, 118 feet (36 m) high, and 630 feet (190 m) in circumference, on which...

members of various indigenous North American cultures who constructed earthwork mounds from roughly 3500 BCE (the construction of Watson Brake) to the...

Belview Mansion. In either case, Gracie removed the Revolutionary War-era earthworks and landscaped the gardens. Gracie's mansion was abutted to the west by...

that of solid earthworks, but Hügelkultur beds cannot predictably control large amounts of stormwater in the way that solid earthworks can. Whereas embankment...

only, Earth-wide, RTS, all-out-warfare sim, Scenario editor. 2017 Forts Earthwork Games Sci-fi WIN 2D physics. Like Crush the Castle; Worms. 2017 Halo Wars...

1861, Iola was never attacked by Confederates. After the War's end, the earthworks were leveled to make way for new building lots. The fort itself was used...

decline. For the 120 square kilometers (46 sq mi) area falling within the earthwork defenses of the hinterland, the peak population is estimated at 517 per...

batteries include frequently changing position or constructing defensive earthworks, the tunnels used by North Korea being an extreme example. Counter-measures...

the northwestern coast of the peninsula. Geographic points (permanent earthworks) of human origin are also included, designated as "N/A, Artificial". "Pinellas...

1950s. "Earthwork Remains of Turnworth Iron Age Settlement, Ringmoor" National Trust. Retrieved 29 June 2020. Historic England. "Earthworks on Ringmoor...

/ 39.4077833; -84.0902528 Fort Ancient (33 WA 2) is a Native American earthworks complex located in Washington Township, Warren County, Ohio, along the...

a mound is a deliberately constructed elevated earthen structure or earthwork, intended for a range of potential uses. In European and Asian archaeology...

and here can be found the best preserved earthworks, but there is also visible evidence of some of the earthworks on the eastern spur of the hill. To the...

managed by the National Trust. Within the wider SSSI mentioned above, the earthworks of Figsbury Ring are sub-circular and enclose 6.4 hectares of grassland...

homes. In September 1862, one earthwork fort and five earthwork batteries were extant in Kenton County and only three earthwork batteries in Campbell County...

adjacent to a site to design earthworks and foundations for proposed structures and for the repair of distress to earthworks and structures caused by subsurface...

Castle has an earthwork of about 80 meters in length. Also, in neighboring Kiyama, are the Sekiya earthwork ruins and the Toregi earthwork ruins. Archaeological...

recording) Bill Bruford's Earthworks Earthworks (1987) Dig? (1989) All Heaven Broke Loose (1991) Stamping Ground: Bill Bruford's Earthworks Live (1994, live recording)...

a dam wall around 2 km (1.2 mi) long across Balta-Baltana Creek. The earthworks contravened the Aboriginal Heritage Act, the Natural Resources Management...

AD, the city covered about 6 square miles (16 km2), included about 120 earthworks in a wide range of sizes, shapes, and functions, and had a population...

theater, and the urban clay studio. Along the Grand River are reconstructed earthwork burial mounds, which were constructed by the prehistoric Hopewell tribe;...

agricultural use, satellite pictures revealed the remains of large geometric earthworks. Amazon rainforest Esperanza, Ucayali Brazilian Amazon Peruvian Amazon...

of the church, is now occupied by two cottages; south of this are the earthwork remains of a formal garden, with a long rectangular ornamental pond, about...

some severe drawbacks: the inundations were mostly not yet ready and the earthworks and berms needed because trenches would be flooded in the peat soil had...

medieval castle in the village of Brinklow, Warwickshire Caple Tump: an earthwork reputed to be the remains of a castle motte in King's Caple, Herefordshire...

Following the initial rescue, MnDOT retained Carl Bolander & Sons, an earthworks and demolition contractor of Saint Paul, Minnesota, to remove the collapsed...

traces of domestic buildings from the second to fourth centuries, and earthworks thought to be a formal garden with religious water features. The parish...

approved and work began on the reconstruction of the camp. The process of earthworks on the land of the orphanage started in 2022 with the foundation of Camp...

to launch assaults against the besieged city or to construct further earthworks nearer to the city. A circumvallation may be constructed if the besieging...

Anglo-Saxon settlement, Knighton is located on Offa's Dyke, the ancient earthwork that divided the two countries. It later became a Norman defensive border...

surrounded the entire city of Yekaterinburg. In addition, new palisades and earthworks were constructed and artillery batteries established. The new fortress...

Erdre in Nantes, which was partially created from soil excavated during earthworks and dredging for the construction of the Nantes-Brest Canal. This place...

and built Fort Tenedos on the left (Zulu) bank of the Lower Tugela. The earthwork fort, large enough to shelter the entire column and a quantity of stores...

Sunday, April 16, when Colonel Oscar Hugh La Grange's brigade attacked an earthwork defensive position named Fort Tyler that was defended by a couple hundred...

Topography Vegetation Terrain Topsoil Water table Bedrock Subgrade Subsoil Earthworks Shoring structures Retaining walls Gabion Ground freezing Mechanically...

Photography Freddie Sodima - Art Direction Patrick Siemer - Design, Photography Earthworks (demo version) (1993) End Of Green (1993) Dry Riser (1994) #60 Dummy Crusher...

dismantled in the 1630s and most of the masonry was removed, leaving only the earthworks. The site is protected as a Scheduled Monument and is open to the public...

Theatre platform, a standard piece of theatrical scenery Platform mound, an earthwork intended to support a structure or activity Platform shoe, a kind of shoe...

spanning the continent from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast. Their large earthworks, which expressed their cosmology of political and religious concepts,...

England: An essay in deciphering prehistory from megalithic monuments, earthworks, customs, coins, place-names, and faerie superstitions. Chapman & Hall...

overpass bridge on the nearby picture. If it was built out of traditional earthwork filling, it would have been too heavy and deform the weak soil underneath...

east of the site, having been routed to avoid the medieval village. The earthworks lie to the south and south-east of Stainsby Grange Farm. They were surveyed...

area in 1255, the Teutonic Knights constructed a provisional wooden and earthworks fort. By 1257, a new stone Ordensburg castle was being constructed. The...

12th-century motte and bailey castle in Chipping Ongar, Essex, England. Only the earthworks and a single block of masonry survive today. The castle may have been...

Times. Retrieved March 21, 2019. Scioto Historical : Portsmouth Earthworks Tour Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tremper Mound and Earthworks....

Fort Hill State Memorial is a Native American earthwork located in Highland County, Ohio, United States. Built by the Hopewell culture, it is maintained...

paintings made with dynamite and powdered pigment, and Star Axis, an earthwork built to observe the stars. Ross emerged in the mid-1960s at the advent...

shortly after the Norman Conquest of 1066. All that exists today are the earthwork remains of its large motte-and-bailey. Rayleigh is one of 48 castles mentioned...

(1885) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Tales) "A Tryst at an Ancient Earthwork" (1885) (collected in A Changed Man and Other Tales) "Alicia's Diary"...

The site is designated a scheduled ancient monument, however, only the earthworks remain above the ground level. The prevailing theory is that the name...

focuses mainly on building construction, civil engineering, roads, and earthworks. Founded in 1970, WBHO is headquartered in Sandton, and listed on the...

built on Quincy Street. The fortifications seemed to consist of low-lying earthwork levies strengthened by the presence of at least one cannon. The militia...

region and is known for its proximity to natural attractions and historic earthworks. Laurelville was established in 1871 by early settlers William A. Albin...

metres (430 ft) north of the Wansdyke. It is a scheduled monument. The earthwork is a square, aligned west–east, with sides of length 180 metres (590 ft)...

Park Works (also known as the Orange Township Works) is a complex of earthworks and a potential archaeological site located within Highbanks Metro Park...

the beleaguering hordes". The defences Gordon had built with lines of earthwork, mines, and barbed wire presented the Ansar with much difficulty and their...

the ecosystem of the river was significantly damaged by non-permitted earthworks and heavy machinery use. "Interweniujemy w sprawie dewastacji brzegu rzeki...

they used the knowledge of the Romans' tactics to build siege towers and earthworks. They then assaulted the Romans nearly continuously for more than two...

follows, or keeps close company with, the remnants of Offa's Dyke, an earthwork traditionally thought to have been constructed in the late 8th century...

I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Aghayalloge, Dane's Cast, linear earthwork, grid ref: J056 214 to J060 208 and J0572 2118 to J0582 2099 Aghmakane...

housing estate, at Tredarvah, to the west of Alverton. The defensive earthwork known as Lescudjack Castle is not excavated, but almost certainly belongs...

Schaan, Denise; Ranzi, Alceu (December 2009). "Pre-Columbian geometric earthworks in the upper Purús: a complex society in western Amazonia". Antiquity...

1977. Hopewell tradition List of Hopewell sites Mound builder (people) Earthwork (archaeology) "National Register Information System". National Register...

sometimes known as Fort Majabigwaduce, Castine, or Penobscot) was a palisaded earthwork fort built in 1779 by Great Britain during the American Revolutionary...

The Confederate force was Ewell's Second Corps, and his men erected earthworks on the western end of the clearing known as Saunders Field. Ewell's instructions...

for painter Frederick Goodall and named after the nearby prehistoric earthwork known as Grim's Ditch. It was converted into a hotel, Grim's Dyke Hotel...

South along the Mississippi and its tributaries, and had built massive earthwork mounds as part of their society about 950–1250 AD. Its largest location...

based on evidence found along the Mississippi, Comite, and Amite rivers. Earthwork mounds were built by hunter-gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period...

available area. Dammuso Vite ad alberello di Pantelleria Dry stone Terrace (earthworks) "The Pantelleria garden". Parco Nazionale Isola di Pantelleria. Retrieved...

Forest. It comprised a ringwork or shell keep, with an adjacent bailey; earthwork dams were constructed to flood the area around the castle, creating a...

for digging trenches, small pits, laying canals, filling them and other earthworks. The PZM-2 was created in the USSR in the 1960s for the engineering troops...

Cadw SAM: GM386: Earthwork on Graig Fawr coflein NPRN: not yet identified. GGAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: GM334: Earthwork 450m SW of Llanddewi...

referred to as Stratton Park Moated Enclosure and Associated Manorial Earthworks or Stratton Manor Moat) is a scheduled ancient monument formed of a moat...

home to Fort McAllister, the best-preserved earthwork fortification of the Confederacy. Though the earthworks were attacked unsuccessfully seven times by...

and of settlements and earthworks in the Kuban River valley.. During the 6th century BC, the Scythians built several earthworks along the right bank of...

The Piketon Mounds (also called Graded Way) are a group of earthworks located in Piketon, Ohio in the United States. The site is listed on the National...

sites. The historian Hadrian Allcroft included the site in his 1908 book Earthwork of England, and in 1930 E. Cecil Curwen listed it as a possible Neolithic...

at the site of a historic Cherokee town, which was centered around the earthwork Cullowhee Mound. The name was long thought to mean "Valley of the Lilies...

Cherbury Camp is a multi-vallate hill fort-like earthwork, at grid reference SU374963, 1 mi (1.6 km) north of the village of Charney Bassett in the Vale...

castle was in ruins. The site was excavated in 1973, 1985 and 1986. Only earthworks remain. The site is a Scheduled Monument. Castles in Great Britain and...

OF THE KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVIEW The Modern Antiquarian, Hayes Common earthworks "London Borough of Bromley, Friends of Hayes Common". Archived from the...

Battle of Lewis's Farm Virginia C Union Union forces capture Confederate earthworks. March 31, 1865 Battle of White Oak Road Virginia B Union Confederate...

Dunluce, in Coleraine Borough Council area, at grid ref: C9048 4137. The earthworks, adjacent to Dunluce Castle, are a scheduled historic monument, at grid...

Its extreme length makes it a notable example of this class of linear earthwork; it is better interpreted as a pair of same-length cursus constructed...

name was kept secret and afterwards announced on the official website of Earthwork. In 1990, he was the character designer and chief production supervisor...

The London Defence Positions were a late 19th-century scheme of earthwork fortifications in the southeast of England, designed to protect London from...

Stage I has been obtained, with Stage II clearance in advanced stages. Earthwork has progressed significantly, with over 2 million cubic meters of filling...

significant contributions to botany, zoology, and the study of prehistoric earthworks in North America. Beyond his previous extensive work in Europe, he also...

storage pits, was never established within the boundary of the earthwork. The earthworks were intended to enclose an area of approximately 3.5 ha (8.6...

Brake. Radiocarbon dating, coring and luminescence dating show that minor earthworks begun here around 3500 BC with substanical earthraising starting around...

known locally as the Mound Indians or Stone Box Indians, built complex earthwork mounds topped with ceremonial buildings. Their settlement was part of...

symmetrical plan, but now only part of the earthwork on both wings, the rear earthwork, and the blind earthworks remain. The fortification was equipped with...

that the plan of the iron age earthwork was used as hedging forming the boundary of a deerpark, with additional earthworks added to the west to incorporate...

cities, agricultural practices, civic and monumental architecture, major earthworks, and complex societal hierarchies. Some of these civilizations had declined...

usually follows the contours of a hill and consists of one or more lines of earthworks or stone ramparts, with stockades or defensive walls, and external ditches...

Surprise is a studio album by Bill Bruford's Earthworks recorded November 2000. It was the second Earthworks album to feature saxophonist Patrick Clahar...

many other earthworks and erected stone monuments from the Neolithic and Early Bronze periods, including the Dorset Cursus, an earthwork 10 km (6 mi)...

existing earthworks to justify this 'assertion'. Despite its name there is no evidence of any Roman occupation on this site. The earthworks, or enclosure...

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. GA-158, "Pace's Ferry Earthwork, 4075 Paces Ferry Road Northwest, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA", 18 photos...

into the city with a dam initially worked, but the poorly constructed earthworks broke—possibly breached by the Xia—in January 1210 and the Mongol camp...

defensive function may have been linked with Ponter's Ball Dyke, a linear earthwork about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the Tor. It consists of an embankment with...

 24–30. Mudd, V. (Director). (1985). Broken Rainbow [DVD]. United States: Earthworks Films. Bolton, Marie; Unger, Nancy (2015). "'Mother Nature is Getting...

Topography Vegetation Terrain Topsoil Water table Bedrock Subgrade Subsoil Earthworks Shoring structures Retaining walls Gabion Ground freezing Mechanically...

driving off two British light infantry companies, his men captured an earthwork near Luken's Mill. He wrote Gates, "I took a little redoubt with three...

Mississippian cultures. Between 800 and 1600 CE, they built complex cities with earthwork mounds with surrounding networks of satellite towns and farmsteads. Muscogee...

dates from the 3rd or 2nd century BC and is circumscribed by substantial earthwork outer walls with a diameter of c. 1,000 ft (300 m). Cissbury Ring, roughly...

late 2023, major groundwork—including clearing, grubbing, and initial earthworks—was largely completed, and the Uttar Pradesh government also announced...

bombardment against the "eleven gun battery" (Battery No. 2), the main heavy earthwork defending the spit and the ships within. The next day (29th) the Virago...

remains of a Roman villa and mausoleum. In medieval times, a circular earthwork of unknown age was visible just to the north of where Arbury Road meets...

Dún Ailinne, Rathcroghan, Tara) and other large enclosures and liner earthworks were built (Dorsey, Lismullin). Each of these 'royal' sites were later...

Statistical Area. Located here is Watson Brake, the oldest indigenous earthwork mound complex in North America. It was built around 3500 BC, making it...

district show evidence of a Neolithic encampment within a large circular earthwork where local farmers assembled for tribal ceremonies and seasonal events...

poster, Pig Iron Bob / Dead at last, designed by Chips Mackinolty from the Earthworks Poster Collective. Menzies was the son of a Presbyterian-turned-Methodist...

Bruford, Bill (2009). Bill Bruford: The Autobiography : Yes, King Crimson, Earthworks, and More. Jawbone Press. ISBN 978-1-906002-23-7. Dome, Malcolm (29 January...

in a circular earthwork near Memot, later called the Groslier site, and named this civilisation "Mimotien". The Memot Circular Earthworks span across the...

from the Havat Meitarim outpost near Khirbet Zanuta had begun to create earthworks in a "state land" area with water and electricity pipelines for Umm al-Khair...

sponsored by Drum Workshop (DW), Remo Drum Heads, Empire Ear Monitors, Earthworks Microphones, Roland, Audeze Headphones, QSC and Gruv Gear. Over the years...

fresh water for the hall's inhabitants was a nearby well. A number of earthworks surrounded the hall, although the exact date of these has not been ascertained...

Fort Slocum was one of seven temporary earthwork forts of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C., built in the Northeast quadrant of the city after...

was revealed as the grass and soil dried out, showing the patterns of earthworks that had been used to construct it. As the lawn's grass has shorter roots...

where it was used both as a siege weapon, fired by the besiegers from earthworks and siege towers, and as an element in cities' defences, mounted on walls...

agriculture-based chiefdom (950–1100 AD). The Mississippian culture constructed earthwork mounds for ceremonial, religious, and burial purposes. Indigenous peoples...

Road North. The name Oliver's Battery refers to a prominent Iron Age earthwork. A fine Anglo-Saxon bowl from a burial within the Battery was on show...

during the early Mississippian culture period (c. 1000–1400 A.D.). The earthwork mound was preserved, but the University of Tennessee campus developed...

from 1,320 to 970 BC. The eastern terminus of the early medieval linear earthwork Nico Ditch is in Ashton Moss (grid reference SJ909980); it was probably...

erected earthworks, was also surprised by an attack from the rear and many of the regiments ran for safety. The II Corps troops rallied around earthworks that...

of varying sizes. As opposed to wet sieving, which uses water. earthworks Earthworks are artificial changes in land level, typically made from piles...

Bruford to their new line-up, but he was committed to King Crimson and Earthworks. The group's only album, Emerson Lake & Powell, was released in June 1986...

multiple settlements. Some of the sites in this period include the Kiusu Earthwork Burial Circles, Ōmori Katsuyama Site, Takasago Burial Site, Kamegaoka...

At the top of the hill is a causewayed enclosure, a form of Neolithic earthwork that was constructed in England from about 3700 BC onwards, characterized...

ceremonial sites, which typically contain a burial mound and geometric earthworks. The most notable of these sites is in the Scioto River Valley (from Columbus...

Boyhood Home Harding Home Harriet Taylor Upton House Hawthorn Hill Hopeton Earthworks Huffman Prairie Isaac M. Wise Temple James A. Garfield National Historic...

Esk in Hollows, just 500 m to the south east (NY386782). Today, only an earthwork remains, and there is some doubt as to whether a tower stood there, although...

funerary games with his legions in honor of his father. New barriers and earthworks were put in place, securing the area between Fort Aliso and the Rhine...

purchased by the Cornewall family of nearby Moccas Court in 1780. Only the earthworks now remain. Dorstone Castle Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, The David & Charles...

calx, and most likely comes from the trampling technique to consolidate earthworks. Originally, the construction of a causeway used earth that had been trodden...

accommodate 20,000 beds. In fact, this perimeter includes "the Rochelongue earthworks for which no agreement has yet been reached regarding the development...

Prehistoric earthworks were once located between Bens Run and the nearby community of Long Reach. Lewis Summers first described these earthworks in 1808 as...

Ramsey Pasture and Cross Creek, had horseshoe shaped sand mounds or earthworks resembling the shell rings, with the added feature of a central mound...

History". YouTube. Wiles, J. (13 February 2003). "Tregrug Castle, Llangybi: earthwork castle; Llangibby Castle Mound (307862)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 1...

example, Constantine I's army constructed two massive lines of defensive earthworks, 100–250 km beyond the Danube, totalling c. 1,500 km (932 mi) in length...

In addition to reinforcing the Zasechnaya cherta (a line of fortified earthworks and wooden walls), a new system of advanced fortifications was constructed...

loss of life was limited by the modular design of the factory and its earthworks, and the planting of trees that directed the blasts upward. There were...

between Aspern and Groß-Enzersdorf. Strangely, he did not extend the earthworks southeast, along the riverline, which meant that the line could be outflanked...

by the Hopewell Indians through the first century CE. They built large earthworks, including ancient burial mounds which are now preserved within Moundbuilders...

them particularly attractive immediately after the conquest. The larger earthworks, particularly mottes, required an exponentially greater quantity of manpower...

rising and setting points at the summer and winter solstices. While older earthworks and megalithic astronomical complexes, such as the Goseck circle (c. 4900...

Dig? is the second album by Bill Bruford's Earthworks, featuring Django Bates, Iain Ballamy and fretless bass guitarist Tim Harries (replacing the acoustic...

archaeological significance of the earthwork, and ascertain whether it might have been part of the Pale boundary earthwork, before the proposed widening of...

evidence of a large residential settlement dating to 1200, with major earthworks built about 1400. They have found extensive artifacts, including European...

A tunnel is an underground or undersea passageway. It is dug through surrounding soil, earth or rock, or laid under water, and is usually completely enclosed...

Fort Marcy as it appeared during the Civil War Site information Type Earthwork fort Controlled by Union Army Condition Park Location Fort Marcy Location...

Topography Vegetation Terrain Topsoil Water table Bedrock Subgrade Subsoil Earthworks Shoring structures Retaining walls Gabion Ground freezing Mechanically...

Sanada-maru in the southwest corner of Osaka Castle. The Sanada-maru was an earthwork barbican defended by 7,000 men under Yukimura's command.[citation needed]...

the 10th to 13th centuries. The indigenous people constructed massive earthwork mounds for religious and political purposes. They were part of a widespread...

Archaeologists stated that a large community is surrounded by a circular earthwork structure that is 740 metres in diameter and 4 metres high, built in the...

Fort Slemmer sometimes called Battery Slemmer was one of seven temporary earthwork forts of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C., built in the Northeast...

accredited art museum and globally recognized repository for land art and earthworks, including those by Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, and Nancy Holt; the...

Americans found jobs or themselves sought to live in the growing suburbs. The earthworks were finally destroyed in the 1890s, to construct a reservoir. Commemoration...

earthwork built by Offa stretched some 64 miles (103 km) between Rushock Hill near Kington in Herefordshire, and Treuddyn in Flintshire. Earthworks in...

necessary knowledge and could commit the resources to build large-scale earthworks. The flat backs of many of the colossal heads represented the flat bases...

historic monuments and markers, 20 miles (32 km) of historic trenches and earthworks, a 16-mile (26 km) tour road, a 12.5-mile (20 km) walking trail, two antebellum...

is a form of castle, with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised earthwork called a motte, accompanied by an enclosed courtyard, or bailey, surrounded...

Marcher Lords and Welsh princes. The earliest buildings of note included earthwork dykes and rudimentary motte-and-bailey hillside defences. All that remains...

Roche-Blanche, near Clermont-Ferrand, in south central France. Some walls and earthworks still survive from the pre-Roman Iron Age. The battle is well known in...

within the territory of the Veleti. Polabian towns were centered on small earthworks arranged in circles or ovals. The gord was situated at the highest altitude...

1812 and located within Queenston Heights. The U-shaped structure was an earthworks rather than a wood, brick or rock construction. Built in 1814 by the British...

Massachusetts legislature and 1873 Massachusetts legislature. A masonry and earthworks contractor, owned an estate in Mattapoisett. He married Lucy LeBaron Meigs...

England and Wales: How to Interpret the History and Meaning of Masonry and Earthworks, McFarland & Co, ISBN 978-0-7864-3457-2 Johnson, Matthew (2002), Behind...

Flintshire is on the north-east coast of Wales, and two ancient border earthworks run through the length of the county. There are 131 scheduled monuments...

the fort was part of the Limes Transalutanus. Traces of the one time earthwork can be identified on the Corbeasca Hill at Izbășești (commune Stolnici...

Defensive earthwork from earliest days of invasion Site of monumental Gateway Arch RUTUPIAE Rutupiae Roman Port Earliest (AD 43) earthwork Roman town...

Stumps and roots are removed and holes filled as required before the earthwork begins. Final rehabilitation after road construction is completed will...

the Mississippian culture built numerous regional chiefdoms and major earthwork mounds in the Ohio Valley like the Angel Mounds near Evansville, Indiana...

of the Iron Age, probably between 5 and 40 AD. This, and other similar earthworks in the district, may have been built by the powerful Celtic tribe established...

2nd century BC. A Norman castle was built on the site. The extensive earthworks remain clearly visible today and determine the shape of the hill. The...

a defensive structure, palisades were often used in conjunction with earthworks. Palisades were an excellent option for small forts or other hastily constructed...

Bach Roman Camp     On the hillside to the southeast of Tonna is the earthwork evidence of a large rectangular Roman camp. Known at Blaen Cwm Bach Camp...

engagement of this area during the Civil War. Today, Fort Granger's remaining earthworks are preserved within a city park that is located near the center of Franklin...

originally from the Peak Forest Canal and reinstated canal lining and earthworks. At Tamworth Road, volunteers rebuilt Locks 25 and 26 and rewatered part...

still apparent on approach to the village.[citation needed] An ancient earthwork, the Duncla (Irish Dún-chlaí meaning "fortified ditch") or Black Pig's...

uk. Retrieved 22 June 2024. "Promontory defined by an Iron Age linear earthwork, St Andrew's Castle and additional remains on Hamble Common". historicengland...

Chiswell Earthworks is a land sculpture, located on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. It is found above Chesil Beach's most southerly part Chesil...

Smet and colleagues discovered structures, including "a 'bombproof' earthwork traverse along with its underlying vaulted brick masonry tunnel and ventilation...

section of Bethesda, Maryland, just northwest of Washington, D.C. The earthwork fort was an 1863 expansion of Fort Alexander, Fort Ripley, and Fort Franklin...

also evidence of more modern earthworks in the form of drainage ditches. Within the boundary banks are inner earthworks known as Oakley Wood Camp. The...

ages. Among the most famous of spiral-inspired art is Robert Smithson's earthwork, "Spiral Jetty", at the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The spiral theme is also...

Hanmi, POSCO E&C Co., AWJ International, and C1 were given contracts for earthworks, setting up sales center, executing enabling works, site supervision and...

Arkansas. In the 17th century, the Cahokia lived near the massive precontact earthwork complex that Americans named the Cahokia Mounds. By then, the Cahokia...

of Dean made this a valuable prize for the conquerors. The 8th-century earthwork Offa's Dyke runs close to Symonds Yat. The Yat Gorge was mined for iron...

A medieval Burgstall once stood on its summit; excavated in 1993, the earthwork has been dated to the 12th century. Puchheim is well connected to the...

been accused of "human rights abuses and irresponsible practices" by Earthworks, an environmental organization, and others. In October 2008, an instrument...

Union infantry were arriving near his flank, he withdrew to his modest earthworks at Five Forks. After a night of confused orders and weather-related delays...

Massachusetts Bay not on the site of a previous fortification. The fort was an earthwork that could accommodate seven guns, with three magazines and a bombproof...

castle in 1553, the other three gateways being closed. A bastion, a large earthwork projecting eastwards from the Bastille, was built to provide additional...

medieval motte-and-bailey castle stood to the south of the village, the earthwork remains are still present. Castlemorton Common was once part of the vast...

present-day appearance of the park. A prominent feature of the park is the earthwork of Offa's Dyke, which passes within 200 yards of the castle. This is shown...

ship access roads and wharves, wharves and filling and dredging wharves, earthworks, 800 units of residential houses, 220 units of shophouses, and most recently...

with the Adena culture beginning the construction of numerous skilled earthwork mounds and enclosures more than 2000 years ago. Some of the villages of...

grandmother. On 10 December 2020, a light aircraft made an emergency landing on earthworks at the construction site, which was the airport's first arrival. The first...

on the projection’s neck. In all, it consisted of five ditches, four earthworks, and three levelled courtyards. A fortified settlement was built at the...

The earthworks where it was located, in the Water Meadow where the Cherwell forks, are still apparent today. Further fortifications and earthworks were...

defences. New earthworks and a narrow water-filled ditch completed the line of fortifications from the south gate to the Severn. Another earthwork was extended...

Isilingo (1985) Uthando (1986) Xola (1987) Usibali (1988) Jive Explosion (Earthworks, 1988) Impimpi (1989) Umhlola (1990) Hluphekile (1991) Uxolo (1992) Vala...

locations. Starting on 3 September, Kutuzov strengthened the line with earthworks, including the Raevsky redoubt (named after Nikolay Raevsky who was in...

Roman military earthworks in the whole Empire. It is protected as a scheduled monument. The remains consist of grass-covered earthworks, and are considered...

reunification. After the mine closed on 30 June 1993 exactly a decade of earthworks to ensure slope stability and eliminate the danger of landslides followed...

Pärssinen, Denise Schaan and Alceu Ranzi (2009). "Pre-Columbian geometric earthworks in the upper Purús: a complex society in western Amazonia". Antiquity...

Painted Bluff Parkin Park Pinson Mounds Plum Bayou Mounds Portsmouth Earthworks Poverty Point Pueblo Bonito Rassawek Recapture Canyon River Styx Roberts...

White Peak area. The monument consists of a stone circle surrounded by earthworks and a ditch. The monument includes about 50 large limestone blocks, quarried...

part of an Ohio Hopewell culture mound complex known as the Marietta Earthworks. Archaeologists estimate that it was built between 100 BC and 500 AD....

key port of Dover from both seaward and landward attack. First given earthworks in 1779 against the planned invasion that year, the high ground west of...

28 hectares with much of the earthworks well preserved. There is some difficulty in interpreting some of the earthworks due to the site being over ploughed...

17th century. Its first settlement was dated about 1270 CE, with complex earthworks built about 1400 CE. The area that the Native Americans considered Werowocomoco...

was proposed to initially constructed as a two-lane highway with extra earthworks undertaken to facilitate future duplication of the bypass. The road was...

thermal function. This part of the Villa was the most damaged by the earthwork works carried out in the seventies. This area was only begun in 1988 and...

to the 10th Century. Above and to the right of the Giant's head is an earthwork known as the "Trendle", or "Frying Pan". Medieval writings refer to this...

Formal gardens were laid out in the late 17th century, of which some earthworks survive. The parkland was developed in the 18th century, the work including...

management to the Bolivian government. Tumichucua is the site of significant earthworks and is a site of archeaological study. See on map Laguna Verde is a lake...

Lee's Mill Earthworks is a historic archaeological site located at Newport News, Virginia. The earthworks formed part of the fortifications along the James...

which virtually re-enslaved free people of color into work gangs on earthworks throughout the south. Simpson, Brooks D. (July 5, 2015). "The Soldiers'...

Dún Ailinne, Rathcroghan, Tara) and other large enclosures and liner earthworks were built (Dorsey, Lismullin). Each of these 'royal' sites were later...

A. DeRussy, or his father, René Edward DeRussy. It was a trapezoidal earthwork with a perimeter of 190 yards, and places for 13 guns. There were also...

Burial mound, earthworks and processional road (right)...

Tène periods. The site is famous for its fortifications, including large earthworks and timber palisades, indicative of the Celtic emphasis on defensive architecture...

This is owing to the dearth of finds in neighbouring fields. However, earthworks within the present deer park of Docking Hall indicate that the medieval...

Earthworks in Fort C.F. Smith Park (September 2013)...

described them as "the navvies of the country," noting that "they execute earthwork more rapidly than any other class, so that they have got almost a monopoly...

the river to the northeast. The nine remaining Shoupades consist of the earthworks portion of the original earth and wooden structures; they are endangered...

Lanarkshire, Scotland. The ruins stand on an earlier motte and bailey earthwork. The castle is also known as Lindsay Tower, after its former owners, the...

include major hill forts at Dowsborough and Ruborough, as well as smaller earthwork enclosures, such as Trendle Ring, Elworthy Barrows and Plainsfield Camp...

installations have been located at Fort Trumbull. The first Fort Trumbull was an earthwork built 1775–1777 that took part in the Revolutionary War. The second Fort...

extraordinary downpour. During the night, the Carthaginians raised their earthwork with the local stones. However, their allies began deserting, starting...

producing pottery from local materials between AD 50–100. An ancient earthwork runs across the wood. This may have formed part of an enclosure for deer...

excavations by William Watson uncovered more than 100 square-barrows, square earthworks several metres long containing a single inhumation grave often accompanied...

excavation was reported to be taking place on all 29 planned tunnels, while earthworks had begun on several sections of the railway. Approximately 192 kilometres...

a protected national monument. It consists of numerous monuments and earthworks—prehistoric and medieval—including a probable megalithic tomb, burial...

flint flakes, scrapers and fragments of quern-stone. Historic England. "Earthwork on Shipton Hill (1002779)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved...

VIII. They ranged from large stone castles, to small blockhouses and earthwork bulwarks. Armed with artillery, the forts were intended to be used against...

in the early 1960s, in The De-Definition of Art: Action Art to Pop to Earthworks (1983), the critic Harold Rosenberg said that since the middle of the...

nevertheless uses competing traditions about the construction of the Benin earthworks to demonstrate how dynastic narratives can absorb political claims and...

War of the Rough Wooing. The tower, which is surrounded by much older earthworks, consisted of three floors and a vaulted cellar. There is evidence of...

Mukaab. In October 2023, China Harbour Engineering Company was awarded the earthworks and excavation contract for the site. In December 2023, following a design...

Wraxall Camp, or Failand Camp, is a small round earthwork in Somerset. The remains are indistinct and thickly covered by woods, but it appears to have...

by a drawbridge to the southern bank. Dunois rapidly erected a large earthwork bulwark (Boulevart) on the south shore itself, which he packed with the...

Sussex, southern England. Harold established his army in hastily built earthworks near Hastings. The two armies clashed at the Battle of Hastings, at Senlac...

Religious Houses, Political, Maritime, and Social and Economic History, Earthworks, Agriculture, Forestry, Sport Volume III: Pitney, Somerton, and Tintinhull...

to as "Jedynka"). Designed by Jan Polak, its construction started with earthworks for the foundations on 5 July 1969, while construction of the tower itself...

of some or all of these traits. The construction of large, truncated earthwork pyramid mounds, or platform mounds. Such mounds were usually square, rectangular...

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This was mainly aimed at destroying the palisades. Much damage to the earthworks themselves or the morale of the defenders was probably not caused. Sparre...

5 BC). Cunobelinus may have constructed Beech Bottom Dyke, a defensive earthwork near the settlement whose significance is uncertain. The Roman city of...

societies in the Lower Mississippi Valley organized to build monumental earthwork mound complexes as early as 3500 BC (confirmed at Watson Brake), with...

be read for its photographicity rather than merely as documentation of earthworks. In Corazon de Roca con Sangre (Rock Heart with Blood) (1975) Mendieta...

Orion, Ezra, Sculpture in the Solar System: From Geologically Based Earthworks to Astro-Sculpture in Leonardo, Vol. 18, No. 3 (1985), pp. 157–160. Orion...

side of the site and the A449 passes about 70 metres further east. The earthwork is a motte-and-bailey castle built during the mediaeval period, consisting...

linked with the west bank at Winterbrook by Winterbrook Bridge. The earthwork Grim's Ditch, now part of The Ridgeway long-distance footpath, passes...

TL471320). The site of this castle is unusual in that the ringworks and earthworks that remain have been identified as predating the Norman Conquest, and...

Topography Vegetation Terrain Topsoil Water table Bedrock Subgrade Subsoil Earthworks Shoring structures Retaining walls Gabion Ground freezing Mechanically...

imprisoned on the estate in 1585. The remains of the castle and associated earthworks are a Scheduled Monument, the site having been protected since 1925. The...

southeast of Althorp on Northampton Sand. Within the grounds, there are earthworks of the lost village of Althorp on which the estate was built. To the southwest...

(2015-09-18). "Wrest Park, Silsoe, Essex: Bathhouse Grounds, Analytical Earthwork Survey. Historic England Research Report 84/2015". research.historicengland...

being "the earliest example of a purpose-built gaol" in England. The earthworks of the Norman fort are owned by the National Trust and are open to the...

p. 134. Warren further wrote, "At Toronto and Kingston, he proposed earthworks with heavy ordnance, and allocated two hundred men for extending and strengthening...

was time- and labour-intensive, as was filling ditches and digging away earthworks; and in later periods gunpowder was sometimes used. Manually dismantling...

a broad earthwork, as a boundary between themselves and the Cherusci. There are conflicting views today about the purpose of this earthwork. One theory...

1839. Historic England. "Large multivallate hillfort and associated earthworks at South Cadbury (1011980)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved...

Expanded clay (exclay) or lightweight expanded clay aggregate (LECA) is a lightweight aggregate made by heating clay to around 1,200 °C (2,190 °F) in a...

between 7.5 metres (25 ft) and 14 metres (46 ft) above the surrounding earthworks, and is about 44 metres (144 ft) in diameter at the base. The entire top...

cannons to fire onto Ayutthaya, inflicting damages to the city. Some of the earthworks were higher than the walls, with cannon firing down on the city and the...

12th century on a site that held a 9th-century manor house with a simple earthwork palisade. Before 1268 three brothers shared the ownership of the castle...

Gothic group, the Tervingi under King Athanaric, constructed a defensive earthwork against the Huns near the Dniester. However, these measures did not stop...

cleaning services. Prisons are normally surrounded by fencing, walls, earthworks, geographical features, or other barriers to prevent escape. Multiple...

started selling a combination GPS and laser grade control system for earthworks equipment, to help farmers level land and control water drainage. By March...

right. Cornwallis had a chain of seven redoubts and batteries linked by earthworks along with batteries that covered the narrows of the York River at Gloucester...

mound of Nanih Waiya, known as the "Mother Mound". Nanih Waiya is a major earthwork platform mound located in central-eastern Mississippi and remains a place...

artistic life and well-developed villages. The period is well known for many earthworks and mounds built during the time. During the early and middle woodland...

Erosion control is the practice of preventing or controlling wind or water erosion in agriculture, land development, coastal areas, river banks and construction...

of the civilization was its monumental architecture, including large earthwork platform mounds and sunken circular plazas. Archaeological evidence suggests...

the Fosse Way former roman road, it is most well known for the large earthwork remains of Brinklow Castle. The village likely has ancient origins as...

Standing stones and glacial erratics in Scotland Henge – Type of Neolithic earthwork High place – 1st-millennium BCE Canaanite shrine Inuksuk – Inuit built...

some time in the castle's early history was surrounded by a moat. The earthworks of the motte and south bailey are still extant and intact, whilst the...

extraordinary resemblance between what is now known as the camouflage of military earthworks and golf-course construction", or later, when he states that there "are...

House. On May 10, Grant ordered attacks across the Confederate line of earthworks, which by now extended over 4 miles (6.4 km), including a prominent salient...