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 Translation for 'earthwork' from English to Finnish
NOUN   an earthwork | earthworks
rake.
maansiirtotyöt {noun}
earthwork {sg} [excavation(s)]
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Translation for 'earthwork' from English to Finnish

earthwork {sg} [excavation(s)]
maansiirtotyöt {noun}rake.
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Usage Examples English
  • A linear earthwork and flint mines are located in the parish. The earthwork, known as the Quarley High Linear band and ditch, was constructed 245 ± 155 BC. The flint mines date to 3983 ± 106 BC.
  • While limited, the Newark Earthwork site is the largest surviving Hopewell earthwork complex in North America.
  • The meeting point has been suggested to be marked by an earthwork and ancient hedge at the southern end of Woodcote Park, Epsom, close to Langley Vale.
  • Belbury Castle is the name given to an Iron Age earthwork, probably a hill fort or livestock enclosure, close to Ottery St Mary in Devon, England.
  • It was originally a small earthwork fortification on the point of a hill, ringed by rifle pit entrenchments.

  • Earthwork surveys are the search for manmade modifications to the environment or ground such as trenches or holes.
  • Other defences are the Devil's Dyke and another ancient earthwork known as "The Slad".
  • Levees, embankments and dams are types of earthwork.
  • The present Bonaly Reservoir was created on the site of an existing body of water – known as Bonaly Pools – by the damming of the Dean Burn with a stone-faced earthwork in 1853.
  • The Bronze Age in Monasterevin was the age of the small farmer as evidenced by several earthwork enclosures.

  • The city of Fort Wright, Kentucky, is named for an earthwork structure (named for Wright) that was planned during the Confederate invasion of Kentucky in the summer of 1862 while Wright was in command of the Department of the Ohio.
  • The South Flats earthwork enclosure is one of less than 10 intact earthworks, located in Western Michigan alongside the Muskegon River, it was originally discovered and excavated by George Quimby, the earthwork itself is about 25 to 30 meters in diameter near a bluff with an overview of the Muskegon.
  • long earthwork has been cut through by later tracks and a road.
  • Overton Down Experimental Earthwork (often referred to simply as Overton Down) is a long-term project in experimental archaeology in Wiltshire, England.
  • The Dominion Land Company Site (33FR12), also known as the Fort Reserve earthwork, was an Early Adena culture earthwork located in the Clintonville neighborhood in the city of Columbus, Ohio.

  • The exact sequence and timeframe of earthwork construction is not precisely known.
  • Oral tradition surviving to the end of the 19th century referred to the earthwork as being the site of a town which was besieged and destroyed by the Saxons.
  • From September 1812 until the end of the war, the 1st Dundas Regiment was engaged in building and garrisoning earthworks and blockhouses along the St.
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