Sentence examples for surrounding ditch from inspiring English sources

(The earliest example of a wheel in Britain dates to about 1100 BC, some 600 years later). The surrounding ditch was cut 9m wide and 3m deep through bedrock – all without the use of metal.

It was usual for the latrines to empty down the external walls of a castle and into the surrounding ditch.

The motte is 50 ft (15 m) high and is made from chalk originally excavated from the surrounding ditch.

The motte and surrounding ditch still survives, although it had fallen out of use by the 13th century.

Geophysical work by English Heritage in 1997 revealed a surrounding ditch and nine concentric rings of postholes within the stone circle.

The entrance is at the top of the small hill and there is a surrounding ditch and evidence of sophisticated metal working around the site.

A second larger mound stood a short distance away, partly surrounded by a ring ditch.

Today, the vast majority of these are little more than a ditch surrounding an inner island.

What makes Stonehenge a henge is not the stones but the circular ditch surrounding them and the bank built from the excavated chalk.

The 11th mfon, Mbuembue, was the first to enlarge the kingdom, and, following an attack by the Fulani in the early 19th century, he fortified Foumban with a surrounding wall and ditch.

A pedosedimentological profile from the ditch surrounding the lower town of the Bronze Age site of Mozan is investigated for its soil and sedimentological characteristics and has been dated in order to gain information on the use of the ditch and on the landscape development surrounding the settlement.