Moats

The buildings are set within the remains of 16th century fortifications comprised of four bastions and four curtain walls in a rectangular plan, surrounded by a moat. (OUV)

"The enclosure is surrounded by moats" (OUV)

"includes the fort's moat" (Brief Description)

"the Teutonic Castle, built in a horseshoe-shaped plan surrounded by a curtain wall and moats" (Integrity Statement)

"the walls conserve their original layout and the construction features associated with their defensive purpose, with walls, battlements, towers, fortifications, both modern and original gates and stairways, and a moat." (OUV)

"The well-preserved town wall, with its towers and gates, extends 3.4 km and is surrounded by dry moats and open spaces that together form a defensive network." (OUV)

"Erk Kala (20ha), is a walled and moated polygonal site with walls surviving to some 30 m and an internal citadel." (OUV)

Inner Citadel: "the remains of an encircling moat" (AB ev)

"In both types enclosing walls, possibly even a moat, and gates stress the desire to set such small towns-within-a-town apart and to erect a boundary between two different worlds." (AB Ev)

Around Sado Bugyosho, the former Magistrate's Office

Each mound was surrounded by a moat (filled with water or dry), and some of the larger and more complex kofun had double or triple moats. (AB ev)

"A fort ensemble consisted of linked concrete buildings on an island defined by a moat" (AB ev 1996)

"Outside the temple enclosure are the fort walls of the Sivaganga Little Fort surrounded by a moat" (OUV)

"Ayutthaya was laid out according to a systematic and rigid city planning grid, consisting of roads, canals, and moats around all the principal structures." (OUV)

"The lower part is encircled by moated walls, pierced by defended entrances" (AB ev)

Trelleborg: "The moat of the inner rampart is c. 17 m wide and 4 m deep. It was not filled with water but traces of a number of posts have been found at the bottom of the moat, which may have been pointed though they could also just be evidence of simple planking." (see link)
See en.natmus.dk

"the Tower is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat." (wiki)

"Ancient Town of Si Thep (component part 001), featuring Muang Nai (Inner Town) and Muang Nok (Outer Town) surrounded by moats" (OUV)

"the moats served, at one and the same time, the city’s water supply, defence, and agriculture." (AB ev)

Casco Viejo: "Most of the seaward walls of the colonial fortifications and parts of the landward bastions and moat survive" (OUV)

"The whole complex is surrounded by an intricate system of defensive works, including massive walls and bastions, wet and dry moats and ditches" (AB ev)

"Kazan was a pre-Mongol Bulgar city with fortified trading settlement, surrounded by moats, ramparts and stockade." (OUV)

"The property boundaries follow the moats around the outer walled zone" (integrity statement)

Beaumaris Castle: "The fortification is built of local stone, with a moated outer ward guarded by twelve towers and two gatehouses" (wiki)

"The site preserves its spatial context with its historic moat and walls" (OUV)

"The Pyu cities’ urban morphology set a new template of extended urban format characterized by massive gated walls surrounded by moats" (OUV)

"protection in the form of city moats" (OUV)