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earthfast
earthfast, a. (ˈɜːθfɑːst, -fæst) [f. earth n.1 + fast a.] Fixed in the ground; cf. quot. 1869.c 1000 ælfric Saints' Lives xvii. (1885) I. 130 Sume men synd swa ablende þæt hi bringað heora lac to eorðfæstum stane. 1868 G. Stephens Runic Mon. I. 199 No runic earthfast monument of any kind..has ever b... Oxford English Dictionary
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Earthfasts
Earthfasts may refer to: Earthfast is old English for post in ground construction, for example prehistoric megalithic monuments that were built for some They are earthfast, that is, they are visible on the surface, but are fast in the earth. wikipedia.org
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Post in ground
Earthfast construction is common from the Neolithic period to the present and is used worldwide. Genevieve, Missouri Stilt house References External links EARTHFAST ARCHITECTURE IN EARLY MAINE Earthfast Architecture at the Association for the wikipedia.org
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yird
yird (also 4 ȝerd(e, 4, 8–9 yerd, 5 yherde, 6 ȝird). Sc. and north. f. earth n., and v. (to bury).c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints i. (Petrus) 681 Ihesu,..þat in þis ȝerd com fra hewine. 1433 Deeds rel. Orkney vi, Aisiamentis..as weill under yherde as boufe yherde. 1550 Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1880) II. 74 Al... Oxford English Dictionary
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Green Barn
The building was earthfast, with posts set in the ground. wikipedia.org
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Cedar Park (Galesville, Maryland)
constructed in 1702 as a -story post-in-the-ground structure, with hand-hewn timbers and riven clapboards and chimneys at either end, the earliest surviving earthfast wikipedia.org
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Mondamon Farm
Also on the property is a frame granary, barn, and 19th-century earthfast hay barrack. wikipedia.org
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Post (structural)
normally land on a sill, but in rare types of buildings the post may continue through to the foundation called an interrupted sill or into the ground called earthfast Pile, piling – A post driven or set into the ground such as in earthfast, post in ground, or "posthole construction". wikipedia.org
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Salisbury Farm (Bridgeport, New Jersey)
In 1939, the State Archaeologist Dorothy Cross may have found two possible earthfast buildings from the 1670s to 1680s occupation of the Salisbury site wikipedia.org
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A. Eliason House
Also on the property are a contributing two-story brick combination carriage house and storage loft, an earthfast cartshed, a braced frame granary containing wikipedia.org
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Matthew Jones House
The house in its earliest form was earthfast – rather than the house standing on a foundation, its main structural posts extended into the ground. The house also acquired a cellar at this time and was no longer earthfast, but rather had a brick foundation. wikipedia.org
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Twelve Apostles Stone Circle
Description The circle is composed of eleven stones, of which five are earthfast; however, there were originally twelve. wikipedia.org
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Biddles Corner, Delaware
The Mondamon Farm Barrack, built in the early 1800s, is "the last known example of a mid 19th-century earthfast hay barrack to survive in New Castle County wikipedia.org
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Ilkley Moor
These are earthfast boulders, large flat slabs, or prominent rocks that have cups, rings, and grooves cut into them and that are thought to date from either wikipedia.org
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Cushnoc Archeological Site
The excavation outlined the boundaries of the trading post's palisaded wall, as well as postholes of earthfast buildings erected at the site. wikipedia.org
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