Technique for constructing foundations, floors, and walls by compacting a damp mixture of sub soil.
1The fortifications looked to Temper like nothing more solid than simple rammed earth.
2Probably got rammed earth behind those walls, but they're not really expecting direct artillery fire.
3Some of New Zealand's rammed earth house houses date back to the 1800s and are still going strong.
4The rammed earth is stunning.
5Most houses were low one-story affairs that were made of rammed earth and could withstand even the worst storms.
6Last year a rammed earth house in a small Chinese village won the award for World Building of the Year.
7But wine casks full of rammed earth had been hurriedly piled there in case the mad English should make the attempt.
8They lived in thatched houses constructed of rammed earth and plaster, with beaten floors on which dry grass was strewn as carpet.
9Our final stop-off was at Port Phillip Estate, impressive for its rammed earth architecture and calming country views as well as its wine.
10The purpose is not to make rammed earth or cement, but only to reestablish capillarity by having firm soil under a shallow, fist-sized depression.
11A cemetery dating from French times had been destroyed to make way for it, and the whitewashed walls were all of rammed earth and bones.
12Rammed earth walls here and there, pottery shards, flint, bronze and iron artifacts and that's it.
13I edge through the tunnel under the walls-rammedearth overhead, frozen like cement-andpeer round the corner at the blockhouse.
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