Word Finder - excavation

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The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

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A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.

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An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.

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The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.

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Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.

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A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.

His latest excavation work was at Aegina.

In January 1897 he carried the work of excavation farther.

It remains for excavation to show whether this hypothesis is or is not correct.

The caving in of mine workings results from the excavation of large areas supported upon pillars of insufficient size.

Except so far as the excavation of the pillar is concerned the site has not been explored, and four small stupas there (already noticed by Hsuan Tsang) have not been opened.

Most of the antiquities of Axum still await excavation; those that have been described consist mainly of obelisks, of which about fifty are still standing, while many more are fallen.

In the oldest form of this class of working, where the size of the pillar is equal to the width of the stall or excavation, about 4 of the whole seam will be removed, the remainder being left in the pillars.

The great excavation of the Osireion at Abydos, begun for the Society (then the Egypt Exploration Fund) by Prof. Edouard Naville, 4 ' but suspended owing to the war, it has not been possible to resume at present, owing to the commitments of the Amarna site and the heavy expense of such work as that at the Osireion, which cannot vet be contemplated.

The true site can be determined, if at all, by excavation only; identifications based on mere outward similarity of names have always been fruitful sources of error.

The excavation was wider here and Dean could see signs of some earlier passage in the mud at the edge.

Excavation at Nippur in Babylonia has brought to light numerous contract tablets of the 5th century B.C. with Hebrew proper names (Haggai, Hanani, Gedaliah, &c.).

The New, or Roman, Agora to the north of the Acropolis, perhaps mainly an oil market, was constructed after the year 27 B.C. Its dimensions were practically determined by excavation in 1890-1891.

This was his last fortunate excavation.

He died, however, on the 4th of May 1865, of inflammation of the lungs supervening on a severe cold contracted during excavation work at La Palisse, leaving a half-finished book, entitled Reliquiae Aquitanicae, being contributions to the Archaeology and Palaeontology of Perigord and the adjacent provinces of Southern France; this was issued in parts and completed at the expense of Christy's executors, first by Lartet and, after his death in 1870, by Professor Rupert Jones.

Though excavations were carried on near Sparta, on the site of the Amyclaeum in 1890 by Tsountas, and in 1904 by Furtwangler, and at the shrine of Menelaus in Therapne by Ross in 1833 and 1841, and by Kastriotis in 1889 and 1900, yet no organized work was tried in Sparta itself save the partial excavation of the "round building" undertaken in 1892 and 1893 by the American School at Athens; the structure has been since found to be a semicircular retainingwall of good Hellenic work, though partly restored in Roman times.

The history of the succeeding periods, moreover, has been partially recovered and the study of architecture enriched by the excavation of numerous churches dating from the time of Justinian, when Nubia was first Christianized, down to the late medieval period when Christianity was extirpated by Mahommedanism.

Until excavation gives us more definite data we can only infer from its position on one of the 1 So Appian, Syr.

A summary of early results as to these mounds was published by Munro (Lake Dwellings) in 1890, but scientific investigation really began only with the excavation of the terramara at Castellazzo di Fontanellato (province of Parma) in 1889.

This involves the excavation, detailed recording and analysis of neonate remains from large amphora dating to 600BC.

Excavation revealed others, together with a number of wooden axletrees.

Excavation of the graves revealed an astonishing world of pagan beliefs.

In 1988 a watching brief was carried out during the excavation of a trench for an electricity cable to light the ticket office.

Excavation on the surface of the cairn, however, exposed more of the passage capstones that had been discovered in 2001.

The excavation proved to be located at the edge of the burial ground with a clearly demarcated line of graves to the south.

In neither of the excavation areas was the base of the archeological deposit reached.

The archeological community is increasingly alarmed as the illegal excavation of antiquities to feed these trade has led to widespread destruction.

Excavation can be done by hand, or you can hire a digger from a local tool hire store.

The date of its original excavation and final disuse is not clear.

Much work still to be undertaken, mainly excavation.

The listing should include records of skeletal material uncovered by excavation and subsequently re-buried on the site.

There is a specific provision against treasure hunting, illicit excavation and dealing in antiquities (Article 51 - 52 ).

In addition, small-scale excavation on some of the sites has identified important sites of Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age date.

Despite controversial proposals in the 1980s, the academic case for further large-scale excavation on the southern part of the amphitheater is not overwhelming.

Both were situated east of the extant excavation units prolonging their east-west axis.

You may want to consider asking a local gravedigger who is used to working in graveyards if he could dig the excavation for you.

Similar results were produced by the excavation of an inner ditch terminal at the southern henge.

Excavation would be necessary to find out if any of the platforms date from the early historic or Medieval Periods.

The program provides specialist knowledge in tunnel, surface and underground excavation design, and applied hydrogeology and risk assessment.

Oh, they did find a jar - containing mementos left by a previous excavation.

The excavation revealed what appeared to be refuse of some sort, containing numerous potsherds, bones, metal pieces and a few coins.

The excavation of trenches for new drainage and underground sewer and gas tanks was observed.

Back on the excavation at the Kloster they had unearthed a skeleton so Sarah and I returned to help excavate it.

Excavation was done in short stages along the 30m section to avoid the danger of further slippage.

For caverns that contain breccias and speleothems, the excavation and mapping has to take into account the vagaries of speleothem deposition.

Despite a history of cultivation, trial excavation showed that archeological stratigraphy survived below ground.

Careful excavation is needed to sort out such complex stratigraphy.

Gigante died in November 2001 but his campaign for renewed excavation, far from dying with him, gathered strength.

The removal of a rotting tree stump may also allow for excavation within the ' shrine ' building.

The latter provide the excavation equipment in return for which all the finds are considered theirs by right.

Set in the wall of the adjacent almshouses is the carved tympanum of the church which was uncovered during the excavation.