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    In agriculture, a terrace is a piece of sloped plane that has been cut into a series of successively receding flat surfaces or platforms, which resemble...
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    excavation Typical earthworks include road construction, railway beds, causeways, dams, levees, canals, and berms. Other common earthworks are land grading...
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  • stream or river Terrace, a street suffix Terrace, the portion of a lot between the public sidewalk and the street Terrace (earthworks), a leveled surface...
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    shoreline exposed above current water level Terrace (earthworks) – Terrain formed by tiered platforms Terrace Crossing - a geographical zone between the...
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    Load-bearing wall Retaining wall Terrace (building) Terrace (earthworks) Terrace garden "Terraced crater". "terraced Crater". Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
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    of water irrigation, stonework, earthwork and terrace maintenance. As their source of life and art, the rice terraces have sustained and shaped the lives...
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  • railway, or landscape and garden improvements, or surface drainage. The earthworks created for such a purpose are often called the sub-grade or finished...
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    stone megaliths. The most substantial remaining monument is a large, terraced earthwork temple. There are various smaller temple mounds within the walls....
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    framework supported terraces, which the government ordered must be replaced by solid earthwork supported terracing. The earth and sleeper terraces would gradually...
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    many are in areas close to Iron Age forts and other earthworks, including later Roman earthworks and earlier barrows from the Neolithic and Bronze Age...
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    The Hopeton Earthworks are an Ohio Hopewell culture archaeological site consisting of mounds and earthwork enclosures. It is located on the eastern bank...
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    behind home plate at the top of the uppermost seating level. A unique terraced-earthworks parking lot was built behind the main stands, allowing ticket-holders...
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    The Wolf Plains Group is a Late Adena culture group of 30 earthworks including 22 conical mounds and nine circular enclosures. The Plains, originally known...
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    building, beside the village church, where a walled courtyard and terraced earthworks are all that remains above ground. The original manor house was built...
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    The Stubbs Earthworks (33 WA 1) (also known as Bigfoot Earthworks and Warren County Serpent Mound) was a massive Ohio Hopewell culture (100 BCE to 500...
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    (500 ft) above sea-level on lias stone. The hill is surrounded by terraced earthwork banks and ditches and a stand of trees. On the north west and south...
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    archaeological excavations. The earthworks are named after a 19th-century plantation on the property. The monumental earthworks of Poverty Point consist of...
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    primitive people built, in what is now Terrace Park, one of the largest of its kind of the 295 prehistoric earthworks ever found in Hamilton County." Mounds...
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    miles from Chillicothe, Ohio. Other earthworks in the Chillicothe area include Hopeton, Mound City, Seip Earthworks and Dill Mounds District, High Banks...
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    eroded, leaving a hard cap of sandstone exposed. The slopes of the hill are terraced, but the method by which they were formed remains unexplained. Archaeological...
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    Times. Retrieved March 21, 2019. Scioto Historical : Portsmouth Earthworks Tour Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tremper Mound and Earthworks....
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    TODAY - S02E123 - ENVIRONMENTAL EARTHWORKS". YouTube. Townsend, Richard F. (September 6, 2016), "The Newark Earthworks: Monumental Geometry and Astronomy...
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  • Virginia Hopeton Earthworks, Hopewell culture mounds and earthworks located about a mile east of the Mound City group on a terrace of the Scioto River...
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    Monks Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the Americas and the largest pyramid north of Mesoamerica. The beginning of its construction dates...
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    Heights in 1956–61; they are now a local nature reserve. First given earthworks in 1779 against the planned invasion that year, the high ground west of...
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    addition to the current site, two motte-and-bailey castles and a set of earthworks are located nearby. The names Trallwg/Tallwm and Pola are used interchangeably...
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    steeply sided, with steps built of wooden logs ascending one side of the earthworks. When Europeans first arrived in North America, the peoples of the Mississippian...
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    found at nearby West Keal, where an Iron Age hill fort and defensive terraced earthworks were built at the tip of the Wolds promontory, overlooking the present...
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  • part of the site of the Terrace Park school was occupied by "one of the largest of its kind of the 295 prehistoric earthworks ever found in Hamilton County...
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  • constructing earthworks evolved from their skill at building traditional pā which, by the late 18th century, involved considerable earthworks to create rua...
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