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Six example sentences with earthwork, each labelled with its topic.
The Iron Age fort survives only as a grass earthwork, a ring of banks and ditches circling the hilltop.
History
Rather than a stone wall, the designers raised an earthwork of packed soil that now doubles as a sledding hill.
Architecture
A long earthwork now shields the village from spring floods, and wildflowers have taken over its sloping outer face.
Environment
Visitors can walk the entire earthwork in an hour, and the view from the top bank covers three counties.
Travel
From a drone the earthwork shows as a pale ring in the grass, invisible to anyone standing on it.
Photography
Laser scanning revealed an earthwork under the forest canopy that no ground survey had ever recorded.
Science
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