shell crater
Artillery impact depression
A shell crater is a roughly circular depression in the ground created by an exploding artillery shell or bomb.
Battlefields accumulate shell craters during prolonged bombardment, leaving the landscape pockmarked and often filled with water: Soldiers took cover in shell craters across no man's land.
The term evokes trench warfare and its devastated terrain.
- bombExplosive device or disaster
- bomb siteExplosion's impact location
- ground zeroExplosion's central impact point
- artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons
- heavy artilleryLarge military ordnance
explosion · trench warfare · battlefield · shrapnel · mud · debris · blast · war · mortar · impact · devastation · rubble · no-man's-land · no man's land · barrage · smoke · scarred · pockmarked
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
shell craterhill
Low natural elevation
mound · berm · embankment · hillock · level ground
shell craterfoxhole
Military defensive excavation
trench · bunker · dugout · fortification · defensive position
shell, crater, shells, shelled, shelling, shellfish, eggshell, craters, cratered