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les enceintes fossoyées

English translation: Neolithic ditched or causewayed enclosures

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French term or phrase:les enceintes fossoyées
English translation:Neolithic ditched or causewayed enclosures
Entered by: Elena Robert

20:28 Feb 24, 2006
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - History
French term or phrase: les enceintes fossoyées
Le Centre Ouest de la France a été un secteur privilégié pour l’implantation de constructions très particulières : les enceintes fossoyées.
Elena Robert
France
Local time: 03:37
Neolothic ditched or causewayed enclosures
Explanation:
Neolothic ditched or causewayed enclosures

see wikipedia
I think this is what you are looking for.
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Alexandra Hague
Local time: 03:37
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Thanks a lot!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4Neolothic ditched or causewayed enclosures
Alexandra Hague
5moated fortifications
Romanian Translator (X)
3 +1moated enclosures
Josephine79
4moated sites
Christopher Crockett


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moated enclosures


Explanation:
seems to fit the idea

Josephine79
Local time: 03:37
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

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agree  Christiane Lalonde
5 hrs
  -> Thanks.
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46 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Neolothic ditched or causewayed enclosures


Explanation:
Neolothic ditched or causewayed enclosures

see wikipedia
I think this is what you are looking for.


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causewayed_enclosure
Alexandra Hague
Local time: 03:37
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thanks a lot!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  sarahl (X)
1 hr
agree  Josephine79: Yes, this definitely seems to fit the bill.
11 hrs
agree  Rachel Fell: lots of info. with 'neolithic ditched enclosure' in Google
15 hrs
agree  IC --
2 days 1 hr
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
moated fortifications


Explanation:
moat
A noun
1 moat, fosse

ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water

http://www.wordreference.com/definition/moat

http://www.synonym.com/synonym/moat

"The Castle Ruins at Lipperode is all that is left of a moated fortification on the Lippe at a former river crossing-point. It first appeared in documents in ..."

www.lippstadt.de/english/ discovering/sight_seeing/districts

Broemserburg Ruedesheim. The Nierderburg or Brömserburg in Rüdesheim was probably erected as a moated fortification around the year 1000. ...
http://journal31.tripod.com/rhine/pg1.html

Mount Estate - Cheswick Green
On the summit of this hill is an ancient moated fortification and camp, both scheduled as ancient monuments. The fringes of this central part of the mount ...
www.solihull-online.com/association.htm

New Amsterdam biography .ms
In the letter, Jones advises the company to avoid constructing a timber fort out of haste, but rather to build a moated fortification with stone and lime. ...
new-amsterdam.biography.ms

Romanian Translator (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:37
Native speaker of: Romanian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  emiledgar
7 hrs
  -> thank you Emile!
disagree  Josephine79: see asker's note: "cette situation, qui pourrait être qualifiée de stratégique, n’est pas obligatoirement militaire ou défensive." Nevertheless you added a notion that was not present in the original: an enclosure is a lot less specific than a forti
10 hrs
  -> at the moment when I posted my reply the asker did not post her explanatory note
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19 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
moated sites


Explanation:
"moated" is all right --although, strictly speaking, a moat should be filled with water, and it's not at all clear that that was the case with these neolithic settlements.

The Oxford English Dictionary offers this instance of use for "moated":

1975 J. G. EVANS Environment Early Man Brit. Isles vii. 169 : Moated sites are small, generally square or rectangular enclosures of single farmstead status with a surrounding water-filled ditch.

"Fortification" is definitely not called for here, since we are told specifically that "n’est pas obligatoirement militaire ou défensive."

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Note added at 19 hrs (2006-02-25 15:36:58 GMT)
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I prefer "site" because it is sufficiently vague to include all sorts of possibilities and we are not given any detail about the nature of these French examples.

Christopher Crockett
Local time: 21:37
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 100
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