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The moat surrounding Matsumoto Castle. A moat is a deep, broad ditch dug around a castle, fortification, building, or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence. Moats can be dry or filled with water. In some places, moats evolved into more extensive water defences, including natural or artificial lakes, dams and sluices.
Wall and moat were built atop the Phoenician cemetery, and cut across the ruins of the Phoenico-Persian, Hellenistic and Roman residences. The wall was built around the 9th century and dismantled at the beginning of the 20th century. Souk Al-Jamil was built over the backfilled moat.
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Plan of Rudelsburg castle with its neck ditch (D) L-shaped neck ditch at Csobánc castle (Hungary). A neck ditch (German: Halsgraben), [1] [2] sometimes called a throat ditch, [3] [4] is a dry moat that does not fully surround a castle, but only bars the side that is not protected by natural obstacles.
The Benin Moat (Edo: Iyanuwo), [1] also known as the Benin Iya, or Walls of Benin, are a series of massive earthworks encircling Benin City in Nigeria's Edo State. These moats have deep historical roots, with evidence suggesting their existence before the establishment of the Oba monarchy .
Dzong Architecture Tibet and Bhutan; Early English Period c. 1190 – c. 1250; Ephemeral architecture; Eastlake Style 1879–1905 New England; Egyptian Revival architecture 1809–1820s, 1840s, 1920s; Elizabethan architecture (1533–1603) Empire 1804–1814, 1870 revival; English Baroque 1666 (Great Fire) – 1713 (Treaty of Utrecht)
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Encyclopedia.com; Curl, James Stevens (1 May 2007). A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-860678-9. Curl, James Stevens (1 January 1993). Encyclopaedia of Architectural Terms. Donhead. ISBN 978-1-873394-04-5.
Moat encircling settlements are characterized as defenses and bases. The moat encircling the settlement was excavated in a deep V shape and pointed stakes called Gyakumogi were embedded around the moat encircling it, suggesting that the settlement had a defensive character. Large settlements are considered to be political and economic ...