It seemed to have been prefabricated in sections twenty feet long which had been fastened to thick posts sunk into the turf.

The woven wire, which surrounds six acres of their property, is high-tensile 12.5-gauge galvanized steel, stretched between 12-foot posts sunk four feet into the ground.

The lodges were made of wooden posts sunk into the ground, with saplings bent to form a curved roof.

And now it's anchored to the ground with a wooden post sunk in cement.

The policemen led the four prisoners in pink prison clothes out under a slate-gray sky at 10:30 A.M. and tied them to four posts sunk into the red earth of a soccer field.

Inside, the stone windbreak wall was all but hidden by a second wall made of panels of rawhide-untreated leather that dried stiff and hard-attached to wooden posts sunk into the dirt floor.

Over the guns, by the great engines, in the magazines and fire-control rooms, exhausted men lay or sat by their posts, sunk in drugged uncaring sleep.

One of the few tasks that had been required of the men, aside from hunting, was the construction of the wind barrier - hides stretched across the entrance supported by posts sunk into the ground.

The wooden posts sunk into the holes of the gatepost were wedged with stones.

The oldest known remains of a building ever discovered, however, are more than 500,000 years old, built by the ancient human ancestor Homo erectus on a hillside outside Tokyo using wooden posts sunk into the ground.