From the back he looked like one of the night storks that picked over the city's rubbish pits.

"You know the birch grove beyond the rubbish pit?"

It was originally a gravel and rubbish pit.

Paddy was digging the rubbish pit, but sand kept blowing back into it like teeming insects.

Pottery shards, rubbish pits, and animal bones were unearthed north of the A8, opposite the bank's headquarters.

Where sunken buildings occur many artefacts are found as a result of their being used as rubbish pits after abandonment.

Further investigations found Iron Age rubbish pits distributed all over the valley, suggesting widespread settlement throughout the period.

There were rubbish pits cluttered with animal bones and clamshells, providing insight into past diet fads.

He called the cave the Grausliches Loch and used it, as did several other tenants after him, as a rubbish pit.

On chalk subsoils sunken buildings and artefacts are relatively rare, but rubbish pits are more common than elsewhere.

Artefacts of hunter/gatherers are sometimes found in middens, rubbish pits around hearths where people would have rested and cooked over large open fires.

Then I looked to the side, where again I saw the grizzled old Gaul slowly limping toward me from behind the rubbish pit.

Additionally, a disused rubbish pit on the northern side of the lake is being rehabilitated and this has eliminated threats associated with rubbish disposal.

The monuments may draw our eyes and spark our imaginations, but it is the rubbish pits and scattered potsherds that speak with the greatest eloquence.

The most extensive array of rubbish pits has been recorded at Abbots Worthy, Hampshire where there were twelve pits which appeared to have specific functions.

Methods of refuse disposal include burning, dust bins, rubbish pits, random littering and, mainly for organic waste, integrating into garden and composite pits.

Further explorations over the years since 1970 have revealed wattle and daub walling, clay sling or sling shot ammunition and further rubbish pits.

Most of the original larger site is now covered by housing development, but up until this began in the early 1990s, remnants of the army camp and many associated rubbish pits were visible.

They were entering that scorned little corner of AnkhMorpork that had long been the site of the University's rubbish pits and was now known as the Unreal Estate.

I sat there for a minute staring out across the littered, oily yard, watching the smoke from a bonfire in a rubbish pit curling lazily up into a light blue, summer sky.

The backfilling of the pit was irregularly mixed up with shards of pottery pieces of charcoal, lumps of clay and stones, suggesting an Iron Age rubbish pit.

W. Joseph Wyatt's 2002 report concluded that the "tunnels" under the preschool were more plausibly explained as a rubbish pit used by the owners of the site before the preschool's construction in 1966.

In the mid-1970s a sand-covered medieval rubbish pit (3m diameter and 1.5m deep) was excavated in the eroding cliff-section on Coronation Drive, south-west of the present village of Gwbert.

(The Roman settlement, on a site occupied since the Bronze Age and also containing a few Neolithic artefacts, included ditches, rubbish pits, a cemetery, and kilns for drying corn.)

They have also come across a couple of old rubbish pits - potential motherlodes for archeologists, who generally believe that pottery shards, animal bones and other debris can provide a sociological snapshot of a culture.