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So far, her team has excavated an area the size of a tennis court, but the bed of bones extends for a kilometre into the hillside.

From BBC • May 19, 2025

But something about the unnerving intelligence of Glazer’s conception, the obsessive intensity with which he has excavated and re-enacted this chapter of history, resists the usual bromides about finding the universal in the specific.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

And since the initial find, the team has excavated 13 vertebrae, four ribs and part of a hip.

From Scientific American • Aug. 2, 2023

Neil Dobsen, a longtime deep-water marine archaeologist from St. Andrews, Scotland who has excavated wreckages from the 17th century, said that the S.S.

From Washington Times • Dec. 1, 2022

The National Park Service has excavated at various locations in Yorktown, both in the neighboring battlefield sites and the town itself.

From North Devon Pottery and Its Export to America in the 17th Century by Watkins, C. Malcolm