1. Excavations : gravel / brick / clay pits; borrow pits , mining pools. 2. This forced the DL & W to purchase of farmland for borrow pits . 3. This borrow pit site contains a pond surrounded by native vegetation. 4. In other cases, borrow pits may be used for landfill and waste disposal. 5. A few borrow pits were located outside of the palisade. 6. These were probably borrow pits leftover from mound construction. 7. The OP needs to define the'ocean floor borrow pits 'with enough precision for us to gauge the actual conditions. 8. The so-called " borrow pits " that provided fill for the Pequest Fill can be seen to the right. 9. Like other Mississippian mound centers, Towosahgy also had a borrow pit , where earth was removed to create the mounds. 10. Around 500 Mound B was built up more with dirt from another borrow pit ( not the pond ).
