The carved white fence that encloses the kitchen garden once encircled the dance floor at Carnegie Hall's 90th anniversary party.

This ditch would have once encircled the site and most likely dates back to the first foundations of the castle.

Today most of these developments, which once encircled much of the city, are being bulldozed to make room for sleek residential high-rises.

This bit of ribbon, gentlemen, was cut from the blue, gold-lettered band that once encircled a sailor's hat.

They once encircled a burial cairn although this is now barely visible.

Current visitors will need to muster serious imagination to envisage the great walls and gates that once encircled the place.

A balcony is thought to have once encircled the top.

Presently, only the ancient wall of the town, which once encircled it, stands partially.

The fortress walls once encircled the entire city, but modern urban growth has seen the city spread out far beyond the fortress.

The walls which once encircled the town have almost entirely disappeared, but much of the fortifications on the neighbouring hill to the west still remains.