It was built adjacent to the earthen foundation of the original donjon.

Stone walls had to be built in order to buttress the weakly tamped earthen foundation which, without support, would have easily collapsed.

With the opening of the Aswan High Dam, the water table rose, eroding the earthen foundations.

Each fort consisted of an earthen foundation with log walls or parapets extending fourteen to twenty feet high depending on the terrain.

THE houses of this village have been levitating, rising one by one above their earthen foundations in an act of collective local will.

Features like the dry moat, earthen ramparts, and the earthen foundation for a turret (yagura) are still discernible.

(Most of these workers helped found the town of Black Eagle, and earthen foundations for the shanty town can still be seen.)

The earthen foundations, part of the gate to the honmaru, the remains of the dry moat, a tower foundation, and a memorial stone can still be seen at the site.

The earthen foundations of the wall and watchtowers, as well as much of the brick-work, are original, most of it 300 to 500 years old, although extensive remodeling and fresh materials have been added.