Once the excavation is complete, the trackway will be backfilled with earth again, as this is the best way to preserve the timbers. |
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Several are regularly involved with excavation under the supervision of experienced archaeologists. |
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The initial phase of the archaeological excavation at Woodstown has just been completed. |
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Above, a group working near Tuba City in 1942 at the site of the Dilophosaurus excavation. |
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The building site was excavated on two separate levels to minimize excavation costs on a steep slope. |
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A fantastic opportunity to take a tour of a live archaeological excavation with York Archaeological Trust. |
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The undercarriage struck soil that had been piled up from a ditch excavation and flipped the aircraft. |
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New excavation, soil coring and field walking confirmed Cannings' remarkable status. |
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Close attention had to be paid to stratification while digging, and his excavation assistants had to be properly trained. |
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It also does grading, foundation excavation, and cut-and-cover excavation for installing underground utilities and paves roads and parking areas. |
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He has been asked to submit a proposal so that the Government can initiate steps for a full-fledged excavation at the site. |
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This report is intended to detail the preliminary fieldwork information found during the excavation of Agaparthea. |
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Little survives of this very large area, although its extent has been established by excavation. |
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The contractor must designate a competent person to assess the excavation and determine that it is safe for project personnel to enter and work. |
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Even so, about 400 relics, including silverware, jade ware, copperware, ironware and earthenware, were found during excavation work. |
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The NationalGeographic Society made a generous contribution toward the excavation of the acropolis and the theater. |
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In the aftermath of the mudslide major excavation works were carried out on the pitch. |
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Hardware on the excavation equipment then uses that elevation map to control the blade height automatically in order to grade the site properly. |
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Round the generous trench is a border of sheet steel piling which acts both as a means of defining the excavation and a railing. |
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Recent surface excavation and conservation have recuperated a substantial portion of Structure 16's elaborately carved facade. |
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No additional excavation works were undertaken and no verge crossing was made. |
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Most of the excavation work will be on the verges but traffic management systems will be in operation on the roads to protect workmen. |
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The diversity of the material found during excavation reinforces the view that the role of this settlement was to control a major trading artery. |
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Distribution of finds from a single excavation can equally benefit local history, museums, and aircraft restorers. |
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Even worse, lots of antiquities have been looted directly from excavation sites, ruining them for history. |
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During excavation, archaeologists found human remains thought to date back to ancient Roman times. |
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A Roman fortlet was located by excavation in 1977 on the small plateau at the west end of Seabegs Wood. |
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The job required 1.8 million cu yd of excavation, four detention basins and 1.3 million cu yd of infill. |
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The further the excavation goes, the more events seem to spiral maliciously out of control, growing continuously more sinister. |
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To prevent movement of the box, the space between it and the wall of the excavation should be backfilled. |
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Atkinson backfilled his tunnel with excavation spoil bulked by imported material. |
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The archaeological excavation uncovered what was once a thriving church community. |
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After excavation, a thin layer of topsoil was replaced and some woody seedlings planted. |
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Obvious examples are the excavation of building foundation and tunnels that extend below the water-table. |
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Crustaceous materials such as pavement often must be ripped and removed to expose the earth beneath and permit its excavation. |
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It took years of archeological excavation to trace the origins and ancestry of various races. |
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Big Bone Cave was certainly mined for fertilizer in 1884, when excavation by a local farmer unearthed bones of an extinct giant sloth. |
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After excavation a sherd can be heated again and its stored energy released and measured. |
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Moreover, the permanent concrete invert was constructed close behind the second-stage bench excavation. |
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Archaeology possesses the technical apparatus for the investigation of deep time through excavation and chronometric dating. |
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The excavation explored the 60th anniversary of the end of the second world war by uncovering a former Georgian terrace bombed in the blitz. |
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The failed application would have meant the simultaneous excavation of coal and clay on a different section of the land. |
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I saved the soil from the excavation and mounded it on the north side for insulation. |
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Contractors pledge that disruption will be kept to a minimum, following widespread complaints during the last excavation. |
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An excavation was carried out of around one-third of an acre of bogland at Bragan. |
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Remember that before the excavation of Qumran, all of the published Qumran texts were palaeographically dated no later than mid-1st century. |
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Where unshrinkable fill is used the excavation must be plated or closed to traffic for a minimum of 24 hours after fill placement. |
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That error, one could infer, demonstrates unworkmanlike performance and led to excessive excavation. |
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This Solutrean biface was found during excavation in the early 1900's in a rock shelter called Le Ruth. |
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The only bones that now survive from the excavation are four femora that were recovered from the south-eastern burial chamber. |
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In 1961 a trial excavation took place and what was essentially a complete Roman villa was found. |
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Thirty-one detailed points of concern have been raised by the Bord in respect to peat excavation and its containment in repository bunds. |
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While the excavation component is more of a mechanical skill, the interpretive component is very subjective. |
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In the process of this literary excavation, valuable remains of silenced voices are unearthed and retrieved. |
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Each labourer had his troop of small boys, carrying the excavation spoils in baskets to the surface. |
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A protective structure adapted to buttress opposed upright walls of an excavation. |
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There are several potential disasters waiting to occur at each excavation site. |
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Whether further excavation work will be carried out depends on the results from the bone osteologist. |
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The excavation has shown the archaeological enclosure to be already disturbed through modern activity. |
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Because of this he felt that excavation should be undertaken only under proper archaeological supervision. |
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Earlier this month, English Heritage visited Urswick and asked for a more detailed survey and excavation of the site to be carried out. |
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No one has ever carried out a systematic survey or excavation on the wreck site or indeed the mutineer settlement. |
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These questions can only be answered through the careful archaeological excavation of the site. |
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The sites around West Drayton and Acton will see new excavation to address problems of their dating. |
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The amount of scientific work that occurs on site, during excavation, is unprecedented. |
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It is an aspect of excavation and construction that you cannot afford to ignore. |
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The road needs to be re-routed to facilitate the full excavation of the Woodstown site and surrounding areas. |
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British archaeologist who pioneered the application of stratigraphic excavation in the Near East. |
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The only way to address the many unanswered questions on this site has been through a new campaign of excavation. |
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Consistent excavation and sampling methods were employed throughout these units. |
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After nearly two decades of excavation, the Carranque Archaeological Park is now open to the public. |
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In response, English Heritage funded excavation of the prehistoric barrow mound at Woodnesborough, near Sandwich, in the field where it was uncovered. |
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There had been no datable finds from the first excavation, but the quality of stonework was so good that the excavators thought the buildings must be contemporary with brochs. |
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As the excavation proceeded, there turned out to be five swords. |
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The block samples were obtained following ongoing excavation of the quarry floor, and the core samples by diamond drilling below the quarry floor. |
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But they discover an excavation beneath The Center that turns out to be Plato's Cave, and the discovery saves them from a living embalmment as satisfied simulacra. |
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Hundreds of years of excavation has left seven gorgeous chambers carved into the salt rock throughout the floors. |
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The problem of tunnel collapse will cause the land above the tunnel to subside, especially when the excavation is carried out at shallow depth and in weak and soft soils. |
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A cut-and-cover operation requiring the excavation of 650,000 cubic yards of soil, the tunnel itself called for 130,000 cubic yards of concrete to be placed. |
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And we can see this one of a lot of coin that we found in the excavation. |
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Sandy industrial deserts, once home to heavy excavation machinery, are increasingly being emptied and turned into little slices of splashy aquatic paradise. |
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During the building of the Towers engineers had to hold back the old river muck and keep it at bay to prevent the collapse of the unstable grounds during excavation. |
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This year's excavation returned to the metalworking area outside the mound's ditch and uncovered a wealth of finds including a sword pommel and ingot mould. |
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The archaeological excavation is a necessary preliminary to that work, and pipe laying cannot take place until the archaeology has been completed. |
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After earlier survey and excavation, the cist was relocated this summer. |
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Its most popular segmented tire is used for grading and excavation work mounted on skid-steer loaders, backhoe loaders, tool carriers, wheel loaders, or trenchers. |
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The soil was purposely left firm to minimize trencher and sub-surface equipment damage while all other excavation and topsoil transporting were taking place. |
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We don't see this kind of vehicle trundling along the interstate, but we do see its value for grading and excavation contractors when the materials stay at the site. |
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The excavation of lithic quarry sites presents archaeologists with logistical and analytical problems that are often not encountered at other site types. |
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Maybe it's the juxtaposition of gobby punk attitude alongside such a slavishly swotty excavation of rock'n'roll mythology that attracted attention. |
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Our excavation was a rescue project in every sense of the phrase. |
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Recent surveys of these sites, as well as one archaeological test excavation, give insights into the skeletal biology and mortuary practices of the individuals interred. |
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Nelson says he sees a day when grading professionals will lay down their own dust palliatives to cap off the soil after completing the excavation. |
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Has Wideford excavation revealed site of Orkney's oldest settlement? |
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In some cases, the excavation proceeded down as far as the natural ground. |
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The job required excavation into steep slopes for the pier and skewbacks. |
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The engineering company Moretrench is currently testing a 500-feet-deep barrier for tar sands excavation in Alberta. |
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The tessera was recovered from the Ninfeo of Punta Epitaffio during the underwater excavation in the sea in front of Baia, which nowadays is a little town near Naples. |
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I was writing an article for Outside, whose expense money helped finance the excavation. |
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He, not Hylton, the author of Vanished, is the one who has done most of the research on the pilots and their excavation process. |
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Of these two tombs, we have also discovered a detailed day-by-day excavation journal, previously thought by Egyptologists to have disappeared or never to have existed. |
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Morris wants to consider the iconic and the larger-than-life, and Midtown is an ideal site for such an excavation. |
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This preliminary work was to be followed up in 2007 with a further excavation. |
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The chalk marl was conducive to tunnelling, with impermeability, ease of excavation and strength. |
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The museum displays relics found during the excavation of the site. |
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The excavation turned up one small femur, one broken calva, and one jawbone. |
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A recent excavation has suggested that the Aubrey Holes may have originally been used to erect a bluestone circle. |
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Eventually the excavation would yield 1,045 burials, although no settlement has yet been found. |
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The 1999 archeological excavation uncovered the foundations of the abbey buildings and some bones. |
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The lead coffin was found in the Henry VII vault in the 19th century, during an excavation of many of the vaults beneath the floor. |
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The actual tunnel alignment, method of excavation and support were essentially the same as the 1975 attempt. |
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Travelling north this is a major excavation which takes the M40 motorway down from the Chilterns into Oxfordshire. |
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The remains of that ship and four others were discovered during a 1962 excavation in the Roskilde Fjord. |
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The ambassador insisted on witnessing the excavation, however, and resistance on the part of the prebendaries seems to have quieted the matter. |
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Ancestor veneration leads many to object to the archaeological excavation of human remains and their subsequent display in museums. |
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The only known archaeological excavation at Castlerigg was carried out by W K Dover in 1882, one year before the site was scheduled. |
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Nevertheless, Dover's excavation is the only one to have been carried out at Castlerigg. |
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Clayton carried out excavation at the fort at Cilurnum and at Housesteads, and he excavated some milecastles. |
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Sometime early in the 5th century a fire destroyed the building, and it was abandoned and forgotten until its excavation in the 20th Century. |
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The landowner Fred Johnson granted permission for an excavation to search for the rest of the hoard. |
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Further, allotment residents were exposed to radioactive waste for five months prior to moving, during the excavation of the site for the Games. |
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Portmahomack in particular has been the subject of recent excavation and research, published by Martin Carver. |
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There is also a site currently under excavation at Links of Noltland on Westray that appears to have similarities to Skara Brae. |
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Throughout, he continued to publish prolifically, producing excavation reports, journal articles, and books. |
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His best known excavation was undertaken from 1928 to 1930 at Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands. |
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Modern excavation and interpretation has been pioneered by the Roman Gask Project, with Birgitta Hoffmann and David Woolliscroft. |
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In 1886 the Cambrians launched an appeal to sponsor an excavation at Strata Florida. |
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An excavation led by Professor Glyn Daniel in 1937 identified the site as a chambered long barrow. |
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During the first excavation of the cave in 1864, finds were made only from the Mesolithic to medieval periods. |
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The mound which supports the pillar was subjected to excavation in the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 by Project Eliseg. |
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A force of hundreds worked on the excavation of the moat and digging the foundations for the castle. |
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In 1988, an excavation within the castle area revealed a complete male skeleton, deliberately buried. |
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The Marine Lake, an artificial excavation in the west of the town, used to be a tourist destination, with fairground rides and a zoo. |
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Considering that the excavation only uncovered a small area of the cemetery, there may be as many as 100 graves. |
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No true dragon ship, as defined by the sagas, has been found by archaeological excavation. |
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The most extensive ancient excavation currently being conducted in Alexandria is known as Kom El Deka. |
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The discipline involves surveying, excavation and eventually analysis of data collected to learn more about the past. |
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One of the first sites to undergo archaeological excavation was Stonehenge and other megalithic monuments in England. |
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Wheeler developed the grid system of excavation, which was further improved by his student Kathleen Kenyon. |
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Second, an excavation may take place to uncover any archaeological features buried under the ground. |
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Survey work has many benefits if performed as a preliminary exercise to, or even in place of, excavation. |
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Modern excavation techniques require that the precise locations of objects and features, known as their provenance or provenience, be recorded. |
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The next task is to form a site plan and then use it to help decide the method of excavation. |
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It is not uncommon for final excavation reports for major sites to take years to be published. |
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The excavation of other ships and artifacts led to a higher consciousness about the Viking past in Norway. |
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He began the excavation work at Dutch Gap, using methods he had learned while serving in Holland. |
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Today a great deal is learned about Kraak ware through excavation of shipwrecks by marine archaeologists. |
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A second excavation occurred in the 1950s under John W G Musty and Philip Rahtz. |
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This distance is determined by the methodology of excavation and the design thickness of the permanent liner. |
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Every month this allowed more than 10,000 tons of coal and 8,000 tons of cement to be delivered to sites along the canal excavation. |
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In 2005, the present owners of Gosforth Hall commissioned a small archaeological excavation within the grounds. |
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In many cases the steel industries were able to take fluorspar from old excavation heaps. |
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Oxford Archaeology held an open day during their excavation of Emmets Post in 2014 prior to its removal. |
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The dragline sidecasts material into a 'wet' stockpile located on-shore, immediately adjacent to the excavation. |
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Brecciation likely occurred during both excavation and modification stages. |
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Trench Rescue Shoring is a fast, safe, and versatile means of rescuing victims trapped in excavation cave-ins. |
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The excavation of a Neolithic stone implement factory on Mynydd Rhiw in Caernarvonshire. |
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It is stratigraphically complex, and the excavation and subsequent analysis required considerable patience and skill. |
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The new machines are designed for efficient excavation of nickeliferous ores at lower levels in the mine. |
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The evidence came in the form of fossils of the Greater Noctule found in the excavation site at Abric Romani in Barcelona. |
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It was at his own expense that a large part of the Tarquinia Frescoes was saved and that Sybaris was mapped for excavation. |
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Louise Miranda Ramirez, who chairs the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation, has been on-site overseeing the excavation. |
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Here, we report and comment on arboreal termite nest geophagy by the Yellow-chevroned Parakeet during the excavation of nest cavities. |
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Using the backup cursor allows the operator to accurately mark the location of buried utilities, thereby minimizing pot hole excavation efforts. |
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Coloboma can involve the optic nerve at the optic disk, with resultant enlargement and excavation of the optic disk. |
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The AEC says underground blasts can be used for canal construction, harbor excavation, recovery of minerals, oil or water, processing of chemicals and desalting water. |
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These were obtained by blasting or drilling and breaking of the calcified ancient cave infill or by pick and shovel excavation of the softer decalcified infills. |
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Later robbing evidently made this a complex excavation, and dating of Orcadian Norse sites is notoriously difficult given the paucity of datable finds. |
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Cavity excavation by northern flickers can take up to four weeks. |
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The company is currently conducting the archaeological excavation of the SS Republic, a sidewheel steamer that sank in 1865 with a large cargo of coins. |
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It is a perfect example of how using out-of-date practices in utility line marking and locating for construction excavation can lead to avertible tragedy. |
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However, around 10 percent of those discovered during excavation had been placed on top of cremation urns, suggesting that they had a place in certain funerary rituals. |
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By the early 19th century, the systematic excavation of ancient Greek sites had brought forth a plethora of sculptures with traces of notably multicolored surfaces. |
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Common methods of public outreach include press releases, and the encouragement of school field trips to sites under excavation by professional archaeologists. |
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If these do exist, time and money must be allotted for their excavation. |
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Sampling is even more important in excavation than in survey. |
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Archaeological excavation existed even when the field was still the domain of amateurs, and it remains the source of the majority of data recovered in most field projects. |
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And, third, the data collected from the excavation is studied and evaluated in an attempt to achieve the original research objectives of the archaeologists. |
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The excavation of the Mary Rose wreck site proved that it was possible to achieve a level of exactness in underwater excavations comparable to those on dry land. |
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In May 1981, Alexander McKee voiced concerns about the method chosen for raising the timbers and openly questioned Margaret Rule's position as excavation leader. |
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During the last year of the operation, the massive scope of full excavation and raising was beginning to take its toll on those closely involved in the project. |
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The position of the tomb was lost for many years until his lead coffin was found in the Henry VII vault in the 19th century, during an excavation. |
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Dredging is an excavation activity usually carried out underwater, in shallow seas or freshwater areas with the purpose of gathering up bottom sediments and widening. |
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When Davies reprised his role for Last Crusade, he imagined Sallah had become richer since Raiders, leaving excavation in favor of selling antiques. |
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After the start of archaeological excavation and restoration of its kilns and buildings, the site opened it to the public two years later as the Nantgarw Chinaworks Museum. |
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These figures would later be dwarfed by the massive excavation rates seen in the last quarter of the 19th century up to the beginning of the First World War. |
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Archaeologia Cambrensis was still being published quarterly in a quarto format, which could not be adapted for the publication of excavation reports with large plans. |
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Other important publications were by Hon W O Stanley on his excavation of tumuli in Anglesey and one on Wigmore Abbey and Monastic Grange in Herefordshire by Edward Blore. |
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The excavation was called the fossa, the Latin word for ditch. |
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His mitochondrial DNA passed down the direct maternal line was compared to samples from the human remains found at the excavation site and used to identify King Richard. |
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In 2012, an archaeological excavation was commissioned by the Richard III Society on a city council car park on the site once occupied by Greyfriars Priory Church. |
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He also began the excavation of many of the barrows in the area, and it was his interpretation of the landscape that associated it with the Druids. |
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Chronological control for the fauna was established based on two independent uranium-series dates on clean carbonate extracted from flowstone at the base of the excavation. |
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