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[Kenneth Eames]

Army Engineers make gabions (gay-be-ons). These are Wire mesh boxes filled with stones. They can be made like a wall and the outsides plastered with soil and planted. If you make a square of them you could live in the centre. Obviously, you would need an entrance and of course, Windows for observation. Roof it with tree trunks and soil upon a plastic membrane. Gabions should be about Four feet thick. It will withstand light shelling. If you want something like this, plan it out on paper. You would need a decent sized group to build this. Kenneth Eames.