excavation

excavate | American Dictionary

excavate
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈek·skəˌveɪt/
to dig a hole or channel in the ground, or to make a hole or channel by removing earth:
[ I ]We’ll be excavating here for the foundation of the building.
To excavate is also to remove earth from a place in order to find old objects buried there:
[ T ]Archaeologists are excavating a site near the cathedral.

excavation

noun[ C/U ]us/ˌek·skəˈveɪ·ʃən/
[ C ]an excavation 40 feet deep

Examples of excavate

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Six cabins excavated to date had all been consciously erased from the landscape by the evictors.
Approximately one-third of the extant deposit was excavated (1.25 m3), resulting in the recovery of 170.6 kg of workshop debris, totaling millions of flakes.
In stark contrast, the termites excavated more frequently and produced longer tunnels at the far end of the second choices.
Active burrows, defined by freshly excavated soil surrounding open entrances, were also counted.
The sampling unit was a monolith of 100 x 100 x 40 cm excavated from each quadrat.
The reconstruction was orchestrated through the collapsing of the sites' post-war present and its desired future on to its excavated and reimagined ancient past.
One 2- 2-m pit was excavated in each quadrant to locate precisely the major concentrations of subsur face cultural deposits.
Another was reportedly found when a pit was excavated for one of the supports for the foundations of a house.
In an area near where the sculpture was found we excavated 25% of the interior of a square house foundation.
The central area was excavated in the early 20th century so the stratigraphy is not always clear.
Anterior pleural field excavated by rather large triangular depression devoid of sculptural elements.
An area of 0.2r0.2 m was excavated to a depth of 300 mm with a narrow, flat-bladed shovel and handsaw.
Over-wintering pupae excavated in cotton lands are also commonly found to be like this.
When excavated, this pit was found to be empty.
To facilitate accurate recording of ar tifact locations, we divided the pit into quadrants and excavated each in arbitrary 20 cm levels.
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