Medieval vernacular architecture utilised local building materials, including cruck constructed houses, turf walls and clay, with a heavy reliance on stone.

In 1968 two hut sites were discovered with low turf walls, which were part of a Mesolithic settlement around 5,000 to 3,000 years BC.

Moving west, he passed through the turf wall at a place where it had collapsed alongside a ruined fort.

Near the lower fords, British engineers built a turf wall near the river.

The ancient fort was the right wing of their army, and men were thick on the green turf walls.

Instead there were hundreds of huts and larger buildings crammed within a high turf wall and water-filled ditch.

Her pulse still beating wildly, she huddled up in her corner against the crude turf walls.

The slight remains of the original turf wall to the East and West had been overlain by occupation materials.

The second phase covered the central part with sandy subsoil and surrounded it with a low turf wall.

The towers of the Cumbrian Coast fortifications, like those on the turf wall, lacked wing walls (having no substantial curtain with which to bond).