The relief of the other works was still less.

The command of the Malakoff was about fourteen feet, its ditch eighteen feet wide and twelve feet deep.

The thickness of parapet in these works was generally about eighteen feet, and the bombproofs were covered with timber eighteen inches thick and six feet of earth.
The loop-holed walls connecting these works were covered by a rampart and parapet, or entirely replaced by a simple parapet.

Many of the embrasures were revetted with the common boiler iron ships' water-tanks filled with earth.

The same material was sometimes used for traverses.
Rope mantelets were used to protect the artillerists at the pieces from rifle balls and small grape.