Originally constructed in the 12th century within the earthworks of a Bronze Age Neolithic fort, the church is surrounded by a ditch, which legend states is there to keep the spirits in rather than intruders out, and may have been built with stones taken from a henge that once stood on the site.
Villages in low-lying, coastal Bangladesh have long made use of raised earthworks and designated a solid building on high ground to run to in a cyclone.
The final collapse came too quickly for contractors to complete the new defensive earthworks and roads they had been building on the Israeli side of the border.
Another 50km are currently protected by expensive, conventional earthworks, and then 17km more by sandbags ("geobag revetments" is the term of art).
It was more than three years before his wife learned of his fate when she and other emaciated, desperate women were told that the futile earthworks on which they were toiling would be called "Widows' Dyke".
Prehistoric burial mounds and earthworks are visible.
There are, however, great Iron Age earthworks on the Malvern and the Bredon Hills that have been dated to the 2nd 1st centuries bce.
The prevalence of warfare in the later phases of Maori history led to the construction of defensive earthworks and palisades around hilltop villages.
Their successors, the Adena, or Mound Builders (c. 500 bc to c. ad 100), created numerous earthworks still visible in the Moundsville and Charleston areas.
Prehistoric earthworks and the ruins of a medieval castle crown Castle Hill, which is situated on the sandstone cliffs overlooking the old fishing settlement and port at the mouth of a steep valley.
The scale of public works in the Mississippian culture can be estimated from the largest of the earthworks, Monks Mound, in the Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois, which is approximately 1,000 feet (300 metres) long, 700 feet (200 m) wide, and 100 feet (30 metres) high.
