Crossword clues for posthole
Wiktionary
n. (context archaeology English) A cut feature used to hold a surface timber or stone, usually much deeper than it is wide.
WordNet
n. a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post [syn: post hole]
Wikipedia
In archaeology a posthole or post-hole is a cut feature used to hold a surface timber or stone. They are usually much deeper than they are wide although truncation may not make this apparent. Although the remains of the timber may survive most postholes are mainly recognisable as circular patches of darker earth when viewed in plan. Archaeologists can use their presence to plot the layout of former structures as the holes may define its corners and sides. Construction using postholes is known as earthfast or post in ground construction.
Usage examples of "posthole".
Although no one else had yet found another posthole or uncovered the top of the seventeenth-century layer, excitement and morale were running high with the eagerness to find that next clue.
Meg had brought down half of the unit deeper than the other and bisected the posthole, so that for a while we could see a neat profile of the hole itself, with a stain where the post had been and small rocks that had been thrown in to prop up the post while its hole was being refilled.
After we had recorded the excavated half of the bisected posthole in relation to the other stratigraphy, Meg had removed the remaining part of the posthole as well, in the hopes of recovering an artifacta hand-wrought nail perhaps, or even better, a button or piece of pottery that could be more closely datedbut had come up with nothing.
I gestured with my trowel to the far side of the posthole, now in shadow.
The chugging, revving engine of the posthole digger filled the afternoon, forcing men to raise their voices to be heard above it.
More workers were following behind the posthole digger, righting the poles in the ground and tamping them solid.
Buy, determined to find a used posthole digger so they could put up a sturdier fence for the new pasture.
Will, struggling with a posthole digger, putting in the floor of the dome.
Rennie gripped the posthole digger close to the wound and pulled it slowly out.
Luther and I followed single file, arms laden by three shovels, a pickax, a posthole digger, a crowbar, and a galvanized bucket.
The other two postholes were even better preserved and the really big news was that all three appeared to be in a line, better yet.
Weeping Walls arrangement was set up the prefab wall itself going up quickly on a leased stretch of side-walk where prearranged postholes awaitedand the friends and relatives of the chemically slaughtered bus riders were being processed through their relatively restrained and somewhat shell-shocked grief.
Mixing concrete, punching postholes, laying out the frames, clearing land, and angling sections of a very heavy fence, all of that took space, ample space that they would not have here.
She came to me as I lay in the shelter of the ship watching the men dig postholes for the cabin.
Within, they found a pair of iron bars the size of saplings, with postholes in the ground and metal brackets on the gate.