How To Use Earthwork In A Sentence
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The most obvious is a small roughly circular earthwork enclosure, known as The Ring.
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Desmond Bonney followed his initial research by an examination of parish boundaries associated with Roman roads and late prehistoric linear earthworks.
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The earthworks of the Neolithic henge comprise a 2 m. high bank with a 2 m. deep ditch.
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The more powerful it was, the longer and heavier the trains it could pull, but the more substantial its rails and earthworks had to be to carry it.
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Heritage Action say science still cannot answer many of the questions about the earthworks, and they want a moratorium on quarrying near historic sites, until methods improve.
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On opposite sides of the Manawapou River mouth the earthworks of Thacker's and Inman's redoubts can also still be seen and just south of the town the Okautiro redoubt.
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It is an earthwork which appears to descend into the ground and is partially buried in the soil.
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Some 1400 kilometres of earthworks need to be completed before it can take the ballast, sleepers and rails.
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They are also reminiscent of ancient earthworks by Native American cultures, making each timeless regardless of their temporary nature.
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Their most remarkable expression is the earthwork which an eighth- century king of Mercia constructed on his western frontier.
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The castle dates back to c 1180, but is also thought to incorporate earlier Anglo-Saxon earthworks.
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The survey team rediscovered the earthworks, reviving the possibility that a 16th century fort may still exist on the Norfolk coast.
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Further evidence of former agricultural practice in this category of earthwork includes lynchets and ridge and furrow, both resulting from ploughing.
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The picture above appears to be a rugged bit of coast—and recalls Robert Smithson's famous earthwork sculpture 'Spiral Jetty'—until one realizes that it's only a discarded tire, half-buried at San Francisco's Ocean Beach.
Photo-Op: Life on the Edge
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He was also a founder member of Bill Bruford's Earthworks, which has recorded four albums to date.
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In addition to earthworks, field names often indicate parks, and sometimes curvilinear field boundaries can be seen on maps and air pictures.
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When firing against ships or earthworks, the fuze should be a little longer than necessary, in order to reach the object before bursting; but a little shorter when firing against boats or masses of troops, in order to insure its bursting in front of them.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
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Nineteenth century map-makers had a feeling there was something more to the area when they spotted the remains of Iron Age earthworks during an Ordnance Survey expedition.
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On May Hill, earthworks tell of a long history including quarrying, charcoal burning and grazing.
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Nineteenth century map-makers had a feeling there was something more to the area when they spotted the remains of Iron Age earthworks during an Ordnance Survey expedition.
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At the car park we took more notice of the surroundings which are astonishingly furrowed with mysterious earthworks.
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Behind the earthwork was a small fire, and he knew that men would be sitting about it.
The Texan Scouts A Story of the Alamo and Goliad
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Starting way back in time - the ground is ridged with long earthworks, there are large round tumuli and there are standing stones that look like a circle on the horizon as you approach them but perhaps are more of a line.
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The article deals with the necessity of data of beam deflection measurement on earthwork subgrade of municipal road engineering through integrating with engineering experiment.
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Each centre typically comprises one or more earthwork enclosures containing burial mounds.
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Such is the foundation for arguing against any conservation of the earthwork, and allowing it to emerge and submerge with the tides.
Rebecca Taylor: Spiral Jetty: A Monument to Paradox & Transience
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They had obtained authorization to do the foundation earthwork for the school buildings.
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In many other cases, evidence of masonry features or earthworks allows us to appreciate that the structures of urban castles embodied the architecture of authority.
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abatis" from the fallen trees, while earthworks commanding the position were soon erected.
Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
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Artists were engaged in such varied practices as minimalism, Earthworks, Photo-realism, conceptual art, performance art, and feminist art.
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The Rounds have been cut across by a road, but there are distinct traces of two ramparted circles, with some remains of a sheltering earthwork to the west.
The Cornwall Coast
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It is not known whether there were similar earthworks around the southern settlements; archaeology has failed to find clear evidence of such.
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At best, Arthur had an earthwork fort and a small band of warriors around him.
Camelot Now
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At Pipewell in Northamptonshire, earthworks remain of the pre-existing hamlet, mixed up with earthworks of the Cistercian abbey buildings.
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As important engineering machine, hydraulic excavator is widely used in earthwork construction and mine exploitation.
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Archaeologists have uncovered some ancient earthwork.
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Of the adulterine castles characteristic of the anarchy of Stephen's reign, hardly one can be identified with certainty to-day - it may be, indeed, that earthworks commonly thought to be British are relics of these very castles.
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Walk along the path enclosed by old metal railings, through a metal kissing gate then head straight up the hillside to reach a tumbledown wall and the earthworks of Bank Slack.
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Fallen trees, artillery, earthworks, and burned bridges blocked the paths into the city.
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Builth Castle Formidable earthworks remains of a substantial motte and bailey.
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We would do volume calculations on the earthwork, and using the 286, one calculation was probably 30 to 45 minutes.
My speech to the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors Association AGM
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The earthworks were reused as a gun redoubt during the Civil War.
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There, during the 60s and 70s, nearly all of the Apollo astronauts who walked on the moon were taught the basics in extraterrestrial exploration and earthworks.
Simulated Worlds
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Most of these sites survive not as impressive ruins, but as the grassed-over remains of slumped earthworks formerly supporting timber structures.
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A peculiar kind of earthwork has the outline of gigantic men or animals.
A Brief History of the United States
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Visible earthworks include roads, a fishpond, the foundation of a manor house, and 30 peasant houses set out in regular rows.
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It is an earthwork which appears to descend into the ground and is partially buried in the soil.
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When the massive inner earthworks were added, with only two entrances, they enclosed an arena separated from the outside world by an imposing barrier.
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There was a ditch on the north side, and a military zone on the south defined by an earthwork called the vallum.
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Desmond Bonney followed his initial research by an examination of parish boundaries associated with Roman roads and late prehistoric linear earthworks.
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The arrangements shall be made in respect of all earthworks including excavations whether for pipe trenches, foundations or cuttings.
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It provides photogrammetric mapping services for engineering work, earthwork volume calculations, environmental studies and town work.
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Only fragments remain of this royal hunting lodge, although there are some impressive earthworks including Bank Slack.
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In recent months Robert Smithson's monumental earthwork Spiral Jetty, built in 1970 in a shallow bay of roseate water in the northeast section of Utah's Great Salt Lake, has become landlocked.
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Through the analysis of mechanic model of spline function, the paper proposed a simple, convenient and efficient sheet assimilative method based on finite element to calculate earthwork volume.
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Namibia is believed to have offered Ramatex a 20-year tax holiday, free wharfage, free earthworks at the factory site and free electricity infrastructure up to the factory site.
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The actual truth lies midway between the "evenness" of Evelyn and the "great hills" of Pepys, and to the man of Wilts that word "Plain" will ever summon up a vision of rolling downs, a short, crisp, elastic turf dotted with flocks, and broken here and there by some crested earthwork or barrow, which rears itself from the undulating Down, and breaks the skyline with its sharp outline.
Stonehenge Today and Yesterday
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There was nothing hurried or hastily thought-out about their earthworks.
TREASON KEEP
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Some 1400 kilometres of earthworks need to be completed before it can take the ballast, sleepers and rails.
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By his time only some of the earthworks, and the outer defence that was part of the city wall, survived.
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Approximately twelve thousand men lived in huts, and an outer and inner line of defensive earthworks were built.
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The characteristic feature of Brindley's canals was their winding routes, following contours as far as possible without involving major earthworks.
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Assistant Secretary Owen said the latest estimates are that 35,000 civilians were able to flee the area Monday when government forces used explosives to create a gap in an "earthwork" wall a few miles long constructed by the Tigers using mechanical diggers.
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Overlooking Hollybush to the north is a huge prehistoric earthwork, no doubt associated with the more complex one on the Herefordshire Beacon, but largely enclosed by thick, hanging woods.
Country diary: Malvern Hills
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Among sites recorded are a possible prehistoric earthwork enclosure and industrial remains.
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The busy prehistory is known rather than seen in the shadow remnants of dikes and earthworks.
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Earthworks, a U. S.-based non-profit organization campaigning against the mine, expects the Pebble project to produce 10 billion tons of waste during its lifetime based on initial resource estimates from the partnership.
Opposition to Alaska Mine Builds Up Among Jewelers
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It successfully meets the need of these large communal greenbelt projects through integrating computer automatic graphing and earthwork valure calculation into a uniform system.
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The massive earthworks, 15 m. thick, still stand to a height of 3 m. and are pierced by three original entrances.
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Meantime the Trojan camp, fortified only by earthworks and deprived of its leader and its best warriors, was hard-pressed.
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Great care was taken as the board envisaged disastrous results if the earthworks collapsed and released a wall of water upon New Plymouth.
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The henges are ancient monuments made up of circular earthworks, each 260 yards in diameter.
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Studies show the crabs can also cause serious damage by burrowing into banks and earthworks along rivers.
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The characteristic feature of Brindley's canals was their winding routes, following contours as far as possible without involving major earthworks.
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The enemy opened with musketry and cannon, but the column went on, sweeping down the _abattis_, making use of it to aid in effecting a passage of the deep ditches and to gain a footing on the berme of the earthworks.
Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
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Cross the road for an enormous show of Liverpool-born Tony Cragg's hefty colored sculptures, some of which are dotted about the glorious permanent architectural "landform" earthwork by Charles Jencks in front of the building.
An Explosion of Visual Arts
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In the most Belgicized areas, hill forts tended to give way to large settlements on lower ground, sometimes with their approaches defended by great running earthworks.
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One of five works on paper comprising the remainder of the show, Spiral Jetty visually resurrects Robert Smithson's monumental 1970 earthwork in vivid inks, acrylics and pencil.
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As our trio discussed how softly fruity and expansive the bottle of Australian Earthworks Shiraz was, the entrées arrived by way of the affable but scattered server.
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Dia now also oversees the mother of all earthworks, Spiral Jetty, a great coil of rocks built by Robert Smithson into the Great Salt Lake in Utah in 1970.
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Up on the hill, the Americans pulled back, abandoning the earthworks and the Breed's Hill Fort to the oncoming attack.
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A castle and extensive earthworks are still to be found in the area.
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Within the earthwork is a barn that was once the Decorated church of St. Martin.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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Desmond Bonney followed his initial research by an examination of parish boundaries associated with Roman roads and late prehistoric linear earthworks.
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I was digging holes and calling them earthworks.