Moats
WHS with visible presence of a moat, "a deep, broad ditch dug around a castle, fortification, building, or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence" (wiki).
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Ancient Merv | "Erk Kala (20ha), is a walled and moated polygonal site with walls surviving to some 30 m and an internal citadel." (OUV) | |
| Ayutthaya | "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) | |
| Bolgar | "The site preserves its spatial context with its historic moat and walls" (OUV) | |
| Chola Temples | "Outside the temple enclosure are the fort walls of the Sivaganga Little Fort surrounded by a moat" (OUV) | |
| Citadel of the Ho Dynasty | Inner Citadel: "the remains of an encircling moat" (AB ev) | |
| Dutch Water Defence Lines | "A fort ensemble consisted of linked concrete buildings on an island defined by a moat" (AB ev 1996) | |
| Fort Jesus | "includes the fort's moat" (Brief Description) | |
| Fortified City of Carcassonne | "The enclosure is surrounded by moats" (OUV) | |
| Gwynedd Castles | Beaumaris Castle: "The fortification is built of local stone, with a moated outer ward guarded by twelve towers and two gatehouses" (wiki) | |
| Himeji-jo | "The property boundaries follow the moats around the outer walled zone" (integrity statement) | |
| Kazan Kremlin | "Kazan was a pre-Mongol Bulgar city with fortified trading settlement, surrounded by moats, ramparts and stockade." (OUV) | |
| Malbork Castle | "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) | |
| Mozu-Furuichi Kofun | 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) | |
| Nesvizh | 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) | |
| Panamá | Casco Viejo: "Most of the seaward walls of the colonial fortifications and parts of the landward bastions and moat survive" (OUV) | |
| Pyu Ancient Cities | "The Pyu cities’ urban morphology set a new template of extended urban format characterized by massive gated walls surrounded by moats" (OUV) | |
| Roman Walls of Lugo | "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) | |
| Sado Island Gold Mines | Around Sado Bugyosho, the former Magistrate's Office | |
| Sambor Prei Kuk | "the moats served, at one and the same time, the city’s water supply, defence, and agriculture." (AB ev) | |
| Si Thep | "Ancient Town of Si Thep (component part 001), featuring Muang Nai (Inner Town) and Muang Nok (Outer Town) surrounded by moats" (OUV) | |
| Sukhothai | "protection in the form of city moats" (OUV) | |
| Torun | "the Teutonic Castle, built in a horseshoe-shaped plan surrounded by a curtain wall and moats" (Integrity Statement) | |
| Tower of London | "the Tower is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat." (wiki) | |
| Viking Age Ring Fortresses | 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) | |
| Visby | "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) | |
| Xochicalco | "The lower part is encircled by moated walls, pierced by defended entrances" (AB ev) |
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