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The house is a typical New England farmhouse with five windows across the front, a door in the center and a large chimney in the middle of a pitched roof. There is some evidence that components in the hall (or kitchen) and its chamber above, as well as the garret , were salvaged from Grandfather Jason's original structure of 1680.
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If an erosional hole is created in the nappe that is called a window. A klippe is a solitary outcrop of the nappe in the middle of autochthonous material. A tectonic window , or fenster (lit. "window" in German ), is a geologic structure formed by erosion or normal faulting on a thrust system.
These posts were removed and the holes were filled with sediment before the mound was abandoned. [3] It originally served as a substructure wooden buildings used as civic or religious sites by nearby settlements. [4] These buildings may have included an earthen Great House, approximately 25 meters in diameter. [5]
A modern view of a medieval pillow mound at Stoke Poges, England. The most characteristic structure of the "cony-garth" ("rabbit-yard") [1] is the pillow mound.These were "pillow-like", oblong mounds with flat tops, frequently described as being "cigar-shaped", and sometimes arranged like the letter E or into more extensive, interconnected rows.
A tree throw or tree hole is a bowl-shaped cavity or depression created in the subsoil by a tree. They are formed either by the long-term presence and growth of tree roots or when a large tree is blown over (as a windthrow ) or has its stump pulled out which tears out a quantity of soil along with the roots.
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This house called é (Cuneiform: š, Eā; Sumerian: eā; Akkadian: bÄ«tu) faced inward toward an open courtyard which provided a cooling effect by creating convection currents. This courtyard called tarbaį¹£u (Akkadian) was the primary organizing feature of the house, all the rooms opened into it. The external walls were featureless with ...