A neck ditch (German: Halsgraben), sometimes called a throat ditch, is a dry moat that does not fully surround a castle, but only bars the side that is...

peninsula are called neck ditches. Moats separating different elements of a castle, such as the inner and outer wards, are cross ditches. The word was adapted...

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asymmetrical curtain wall—with parapets—encloses two courtyards. A rock-cut neck ditch defends the southern side of the castle. In the upper triangular inner...

abandoned early medieval fortification of the circular rampart type. A neck ditch and collapsed wall remains are still visible on the castle site. In 1448...

harder to climb and reduce the risk of landslide. A classic feature is the neck ditch, cutting off the spur from the rest of the hill. A long spur castle is...

Knock, knock, ginger (also known as ding, dong, ditch and ring and run in the United States) is a prank or game dating back to 19th-century England, or...

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10 by 10 metres, and the neck ditch was 5 metres deep and 8 metres wide. Of the old castle only wall remains and the neck ditch survive. Alfons Zettler...

component was a donjon shown on illustrations) only a debris cone and the neck ditch remained. As a consequence of the extensive destructions of the castle...

separated from the hill spur by a neck ditch that was probably not finished and into which steps descend. The ditch runs from north to south and ends...

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outer bailey is used as beer garden. The modern wooden bridge over the neck ditch in front of the main castle was built as part of the remodelling in the...

Earthworks completed an outer ward. There was no barbican. A bridge across a neck ditch linked the inner and outer wards. The land was granted to Odo de Barri...

dated to the mediaeval period. All that has survived of the castle is a neck ditch which is probably largely natural. The site is listed as heritage site...

received two thin towers between 1845 and 1848. However, these are dry ditch defence towers, rather than true Martello towers.) A common characteristic...

and inner baileys of Alt-Trauchburg Castle (Germany). The Graben is the neck ditch, and to its right is the inner bailey, accessible over a wooden bridge...

the Peasants' War. Of the former castle only a few wall remnants and a neck ditch remain. Denis André Chevalley (revision editor) (1986). "Oberfranken"...

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Breitenstein Castle. The two sites were separated from one another by a broad neck ditch. The siege castle was mentioned in 1340 as Lower Breitenstein (Nieder-Breitenstein)...

of Ackeburg". The castle, which comprised inner and outer wards with a neck ditch and several ramparts, had an inner ward about 30 metres in diameter standing...

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should follow the path until they reach a sharp curve. This is in the neck ditch of the castle. In the vicinity of Schlüsselberg are other castles and...

visible remains include castle walls, rusticated ashlar blocks and a neck ditch. Krahe, Friedrich-Wilhelm:castles in medieval Germany: Plan-lexicon. Würzburg:...

present day entrance at its western tip. (1) Second, there is an adjoining neck ditch, about 20 metres long, 4 to 6 metres wide and up to 12 metres deep (D)...

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surrounded by a second lower defensive wall. On the uphill side was a neck ditch cuts across the saddle and would have formed the first obstacle to any...

is separated from the land in front of it by a roughly 160-metre-long neck ditch. Until the 19th century the whole hillside was cleared and was used as...