“Discovery of fossils in the field requires actively searching likely deposits and careful excavation of bones.”

“A deep excavation into the ground will be required to create additional floor space to meet increasing space requirements for parking.”

“This bronze calf was covered in silver and was found in the excavation of a pagan temple in Ashkelon.”

“He mounts it on a Cat 350 excavator or a backhoe, and he most often fits it with shear blades.”

“Controlled Demolition Group, in Cleckheaton, has designed a long reach excavator to allow the gasholders to be removed from ground level.”

“The officer followed the vehicle to a housing development in the Shelf area of Halifax and saw it being loaded by a mechanical excavator.”

“But the excavations did reveal that the building had burnt down, so charcoal was available for radiocarbon dating.”

“Earlier excavations revealed stone ramparts, a palisade and waterlogged remains in the ditches, including what looks like a wheel and a ladder.”

“The stones, as revealed by excavations, were in the shape of ornamented half-eggs on squat, quadrangular bases.”

“The equipment replaced consisted of, for example, rough-terrain forklifts, midpowered dozers and excavators, manlifts, scissors lifts, and more.”

“Rather, he relies on his operators and drivers to maintain the fleet of excavators, scrapers, graders, dozers, and dump trucks.”

“Hydraulic hammers and breakers, attached to big excavators or scudding skid-steers, announce demolition.”