Defensive fortifications were erected to resist raiders.
The Greater London Authority said the fence was erected to enable the grass to be reseeded.
Now archaeologists have provided the clinching evidence that Stonehenge, too, was erected to mark midwinter's day.
Colonial markets were of particular importance to Portugal, and tariff barriers were erected to protect its manufactures.
And yet statues in public spaces have enormous symbolic importance, for they are erected to promote particular ideals and values.
Last summer 10 emergency yurts were erected to house migrant workers in Yountville about a mile from the French Laundry.
The mayor argues that the wall was erected to protect Roma children from being run over by cars, but Mr Banta says this was unnecessary.
The offshore turbines — there are ten of them — were erected to compensate for Samsø's continuing use of fossil fuels in its cars, trucks, and ferries.
A submerged platform was erected to rotate the ship onto, and most of the 200-plus-foot gash in the vessel's side has been welded shut.
Instead, an insurmountable wall is erected to prevent you from ever applying in the first place.
