They built simple houses of wood and thatch set into shallow earthen pits to provide warmth from the soil.

Several rows of chairs surround an earthen pit some 90 feet in diameter.

All that would be left was a faint reddish hue at the bottom of a shallow earthen pit in the cellar.

This is especially fit so they can easily be moved when the earthen pit fills up.

His glance slipped to one of the three-inch howitzers sited in an earthen pit not far away.

Their bodies were dumped into shallow earthen pits on the edge of the mine site.

It wasn't much to look at, merely three small shelters situated around the earthen pit that Kirk had dug out with his phaser.

Producers solved the problem by storing the oil in earthen pits holding up to 16,000 cubic metres each.

Then I woke up by degrees to find myself in an earthen pit shaped like a bottle and having the remains of polished sides to it.

It usually consists of a large earthen pit with sharpened pikes in the bottom to impale the bear.