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excavation sentence examples

  • 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.
  • However, recent archeological excavations show saxon women are more often buried with pairs of saucer brooches.
  • Excavation trench examined the major ditch that runs northwards from rocky clump.
  • Looks at the excavation of an anglo-saxon village and at a rescue excavation in worcester.
  • Excavation of a trench for an electricity cable to light the ticket office.
  • In 1960 her team cleared the interior and conducted excavations in and around the basilica.
  • There is a specific provision against treasure hunting, illicit excavation and dealing in antiquities ( article 51 - 52 ).
  • The ham & high reports on the number of basement excavations currently taking place in the posh suburb.
  • Excavation of eighteen round barrows near shrewton, wiltshire.
  • National grid intends to commence excavations for the construction of the line itself in mid-late january and construction activities will continue throughout the year.
  • Recent excavations revealed a cemetery of over 800 burials dating from the late roman period through to the norman conquest.
  • Trial excavations on local sites in west kent to solve specific research problems.
  • Excavation of a neolithic long cairn of the cotswold-severn group.
  • In addition, small-scale excavation on some of the sites has identified important sites of neolithic, bronze age and iron age date.
  • Excavation of the barrow ditch is going quite well but heavy rain showers most days have slowed our progress.
  • Despite controversial proposals in the 1980s, the academic case for further large-scale excavation on the southern part of the amphitheater is not overwhelming.
  • Excavation of the large pit that cuts through the hypocaust on its eastern side.
  • The dgla kindly invited some hadas members to visit the site to see their exploratory excavations.
  • Excavation of a fictitious megalithic tomb in dorset.

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