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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A substantial, well-preserved Iron Age settlement with two encircling ramparts and supplementary earthworks.
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However, considerable earthworks do sometimes exist and these are, of course, well worth recording.
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It is true we no longer live in the cultures that produced the great temples or stone circles or earthworks.
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Meantime the Trojan camp, fortified only by earthworks and deprived of its leader and its best warriors, was hard-pressed.
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Nothing like their earthworks had been seen since the earlier Iron Age of pre-Roman times.
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Shadow sites are made visible by earthworks or stone walls casting shadows in very low-level sunlight.
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The defences are a series of trenches with high stone and turf earthworks in between.
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The first line of earthworks was reached.