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Earthwork meaning
Any structure made from earth, especially an embankment used for fortification or flood control.
Example sentences (15)
The trench-line runs along the edge of the wood in a series of dog legs and zig-zags, a configuration designed to contain blast, and therefore casualties, if a grenade or shell were to land inside the earthwork.
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty is an earthwork along the Great Salt Lake and Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels are huge concrete pieces in the west desert.
Hutton Construction will provide an overview of its efforts to solicit and evaluate proposals for earthwork, and presented a guaranteed maximum price ( GMP ) to the school board for approval.
The package includes earthwork, erosion control, supervision and related overhead expenses.
Then in 2010 a field near the barracks was searched, along with a Quantock Hills earthwork site in Somerset known as Dead Woman’s Ditch, where Shirley’s body was found in 1988.
Fox 1955 He concurred with Asser that the earthwork ran 'from sea to sea', theorising that the Dyke ran from the River Dee estuary in the north to the River Wye in the south: approximately convert.
Heng Sophady (2007) has drawn comparisons between Samrong Sen and the circular earthwork sites of eastern Cambodia.
Monumental architecture, including earthwork platform mounds and sunken plazas have been identified as part of the civilization.
Probably to be identified with North Tawton in Devon where there is a Roman earthwork that may be military, or possibly a tax collection station.
Recently, some writers have suggested that Eutropius may have been referring to the earthwork later called Offa's Dyke.
Stumps and roots are removed and holes filled as required before the earthwork begins.
The original site was bounded on three sides by an earthwork circular enclosure, about ten feet high and encompassing a square mile.
The Santee River was named after them, and some of their ancestors' ancient earthwork mounds have survived along the portion of the dammed-up river that forms Lake Marion.
This area has many other earthworks and erected stone monuments from the Neolithic and Early Bronze periods, including the Dorset Cursus, an earthwork 10 km. long and 100 m. wide, which was oriented to the midwinter sunset.
Where the earthwork encounters hills or high ground, it passes to the west of them.