a small stream encircled the space between the inner and outer circumvallations
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In its original condition a small streamlet encircled the space between the inner and outer circumvallations.
Edinburgh had been walled in 1450, and so narrow was the circumvallation that the Cowgate was beyond the circle of towers.
The Athenians cut off Syracuse with two forts, and began a twin circumvallation, but left their northern walls incomplete, which proved disastrous.
At the corner of the circumvallation, on the north-west, there was a fish-pond.
This circumvallation had begun modestly enough as a yard-high rampart with stockade and ditch, but successive developments raised it to well over 30 feet.