Sentence examples for defensive sites from inspiring English sources

I find that while residential sites are generally built in more defensible places on the landscape, previously identified "defensive" sites (trench embankment sites) are not necessarily in unusually defensible places.

Large settlements with encircling channels, conventionally regarded as defensive sites, are now considered to represent effective water management systems.

The upland areas of Lincolnshire provided dry defensive sites for prehistoric settlement, which increased in density as trade developed across the North Sea with Europe.

Castles were not just defensive sites but also enhanced a lord's control over his lands.

Compared to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the other Crusader states had less land suitable for farming; however, the limestone peaks of Tripoli were well-suited to defensive sites.

It has been argued that they could have been defensive sites constructed in response to invasion from continental Europe, built by invaders, or a military reaction to social tensions caused by an increasing population and resulting pressure on agriculture.

Masada's unequaled defensive site baffled even the Romans' highly developed siegecraft for a time.

Carlisle commands the lowest bridge from a defensive site on the south bank, flanked by left-bank tributaries, the Petteril and Caldew.

Lutsk, also spelled Luts'k, Polish Łuck, German Luck, city, northwestern Ukraine, on a defensive site at a bend in the Styr River.

Kiev, with its good defensive site on the high river bluffs and as the centre of a rich agricultural area and a group of early Slavic towns, began to gain importance.

A defensive site in a loop formed by the two rivers led to the foundation there of a fortress in 1574 to protect the trade route across the Ural Mountains from Kazan to Tyumen.