 | Elsdon Best - Architecture, Māori - 1916 - 808 pages
...being strengthened by a square redoubt of very formidable construction, its ditch being 12 ft. wide, and the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the parapet 18 ft. The strength of this work was not known before the attack, as its profile could not... | |
 | Smithsonian - Science - 1848
...banks. The embankment of this work is heavy, and the ditch deep and wide, and interior to the wall. From the bottom of the ditch to the top of the wall, is perhaps twelve or fifteen feet. The enclosed oval area is only sixty feet wide by one hundred and ten... | |
 | University of Wales. Board of Celtic Studies - Bards and bardism - 1923 - 918 pages
...An earthen bank surrounded by a ditch. The circumference given is that of the bottom of the ditch. The height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the bank is i ft. 6 in. The distance from the outer edge of the ditch to the foot of the inner slope of... | |
 | Dominion Museum (N.Z.) - Anthropology - 1916 - 806 pages
...being strengthened by a square redoubt of very formidable construction, its ditch being 12 ft. wide, and the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the parapet 18 ft. The strength of this work was not known before the attack, as its profile could not... | |
 | Anne Salmond - History - 1992 - 488 pages
...ditch, while the inner palisade was built on the bank, with space behind it for armed men to move about. The height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the bank was twenty,four feet. Behind the inner palisade two fighting,stages, or 'Porava* (pourewa1, 53... | |
 | Alan Daniel McMillan - History - 1999 - 268 pages
...across the mound, confirmed that there had once been a ditch parallel to the mound, with the total height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the mound being about 1.3 m (Buxton 1969). Only nine artifacts, all of bone, were found, with bone bipoints... | |
 | Graham Connah - History - 2001 - 360 pages
...central group of smaller enclosures. The height and width of bank and ditch vary greatly, the greatest height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the bank being over 7 metres. Situated within and around the central enclosures are three large mounds.... | |
 | Graham Connah - History - 2004 - 214 pages
...rather than for defence. The height and width of the banks and ditches vary greatly but the greatest height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the bank is over 7 metres and it has been estimated that more than 200,000 cubic metres of earth and rock... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1885 - 958 pages
...its short, from north to south, 270. It is a heavier respondingly greater dimensions. In some places the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the wall is fully 8 feet. Unlike No. 1, this has only four gateways or entrances. These look northeast, northwest,... | |
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... and the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the parapet 18 ft. 
