 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - America - 1891 - 462 pages
...east of my father's mission station, and quite an extensive earth-work, probably originally ten feet from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the wall between this mound and the mission station. This earth-work enclosed a spring well towards the top... | |
 | Sir James Henry Ramsay (bart.) - Great Britain - 1898 - 608 pages
...above the level, 40 ft. in all, but this seems excessive. Stuart, 278. Perhaps 20 feet may have been the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the mound. 4 See Stuart, Caledonia Romana, 269 ; and the plans there taken from Roy ; also the 6-inch Ordnance... | |
 | Raymond Henry Raymond Smythies - 1894 - 808 pages
...strengthened by a square redoubt of very formidable construction— its ditch being twelve feet wide, and the height, from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the parapet, eighteen feet. " The strength of this work was not known before the attack, as its profile... | |
 | 1894 - 888 pages
...is at the south end. On the eastern side, where it has never been plowed over, the vertical distance from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the wall is from 4 to 6 feet; at other points from 2 to 3 feet. The interior area is somewhat higher than the outside... | |
 | Sarah Johnson Prichard - History - 1896 - 946 pages
...pole fence, 4 feet in height and well wrought. 5th. Ditch, two feet wide, and rails or hedge 4 feet in height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the fence, and well wrought. And if there be any advantage by reason of the land or place where the fence... | |
 | Sir James Henry Ramsay - Great Britain - 1898 - 608 pages
...above the level, 40 ft. in all, but this seems excessive. Stuart, 278. Perhaps 20 feet may have been the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the mound. * See Stuart, Caledonia Jtomaiia, 269 ; and the plans there taken from Roy ; also the 6-inch... | |
 | Joel Cook - England - 1899 - 520 pages
...found fenced by a vast earthen rampart and ditch enclosing twenty-seven acres with an irregular circle, the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the rampart being over one hundred feet. A smaller inner rampart as high as the outer one made the central... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet - America - 1904 - 558 pages
...The embankment of it is heavy, and the ditch, interior to the wall, deep and wide, and the measure from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the wall is twelve or fifteen feet. The enclosed oval area is only sixty feet wide by a hundred and ten feet long.... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet - America - 1904 - 596 pages
...The embankment of it is heavy, and the ditch, interior to the wall, deep and wide, and the measure from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the wall is twelve or fifteen feet. The enclosed oval area is only sixty feet wide by a hundred and ten feet long.... | |
 | Julius Caesar - Gaul - 1904 - 550 pages
...thrown down the hill. At all events, it seems probable that the measure of 16 feet is the distance from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the wall. Thus the work formed really little more than a trench with scarp higher than the counterscarp. Then... | |
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... and the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the parapet 18 ft. 
