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	Isaiah 14:19 But you are cast away from your tomb like
		But thou art cast forth away from thy grave like an abhorred offshoot, in the raiment of the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the pavement of the pit, as a carcass trodden under foot.
		But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.
		But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
	bible.cc /isaiah/14-19.htm

	The trial laser scan of part of the floor, shaft walls and gallery entrances of Greenwell's Pit, Grime's Graves (© English Heritage) : English Heritage : English Heritage
		The trial laser scan of part of the floor, shaft walls and gallery entrances of Greenwell's Pit, Grime's Graves (© English Heritage)
		The trial laser scan of part of the floor, shaft walls and gallery entrances of Greenwell's Pit, Grime's Graves (© English Heritage) : English Heritage : English Heritage
	amaxus.english-heritage.org.uk /server/show/conMediaFile.5601

	Annex X.B : Mass graves - Pakracka Poljana
		The grave pit was not clearly discernable until the excavations reached the remains.
		In the grave at the east end of the area, known as CS 4 (the graves are numbered in accordance with the order in which they were discovered, rather than in order of their relative positions), four bodies, piled on top of each other, were discovered.
		The measurements of the semi-elliptical grave were 227 centimentres east to west, 103 centimentres at the maximum width, and a minimum width of 94 centimentres.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /comexpert/ANX/X-B.htm

	PIT in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE (Bible History Online)
		(1), (2) and (4) above are used metaphorically of the pit of the "grave" or of "sheol" (Ps 28:1; 30:3; Job 33:24).
		In the New Testament "pit" renders bothunos (Mt 15:14), which means any kind of hole in the ground.
		For "bottomless pit" (Rev 9:1, the King James Version, etc.).
	www.bible-history.com /isbe/P/PIT (125 words)

	Entrance Graves
		Entrance Graves are burial monuments, the primary burial often being cremated bone and charcoal deposited in a small pit in the chamber floor.
		Entrance Graves are upstanding monuments, their mounds reaching 2.5m high with most in the 1m to 1.5m range.
		Entrance Graves are chambered and an unusual feature of this class is that the chambers usually extend well beyond the midpoint of mound.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /megalithics/gloss/egraves.htm (864 words)

	Archaeology Wordsmith
		DEFINITION: A grave in which the burial chamber was reached by a vertical shaft, the burials themselves placed at the bottom of a deep narrow pit, used in the Early Bronze Age.
		The grave might be lined with stones and covered with slabs or enclosed on four sides by stone slabs standing upright and closed with a lid (dolmen).
		The scarce grave goods are similar to those from the court cairns, and both types of tomb are early within the Neolithic period, with dates close to 3800 BC.
	www.reference-wordsmith.com /cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?exact=1&terms=tomb (2622 words)

	Asian Art Outlook Slideshow
		They were built over pit-shaft graves, in which the burial chamber was usually located near the top of the mound.
		Grave goods, including iron weapons, bronze mirrors, and ornaments of jade and jasper, have been found in the burial chambers.
		We know that during the Tumulus period, Japan, which had been divided into a series of loosely related domains, was gradually organized into a unified state with a center of government located in the present-day Osaka-Nara area.
	www.askasia.org /AsianArt/slideshow15.htm (2622 words)

	Archaeology Wordsmith
		DEFINITION: A grave in which the burial chamber was reached by a vertical shaft, the burials themselves placed at the bottom of a deep narrow pit, used in the Early Bronze Age.
		The grave might be lined with stones and covered with slabs or enclosed on four sides by stone slabs standing upright and closed with a lid (dolmen).
		Passage graves occur throughout the area where megalithic tombs occur in Europe, but have a predominantly western distribution.
	www.reference-wordsmith.com /cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?exact=1&terms=tomb (2622 words)

	Fiqh-us-Sunnah, Volume 4: Burial
		A regular grave, on the other hand, is a pit dug in the ground, with the body placed in it and then sealed off with unburnt bricks and covered to form a ceiling.
		It is disliked if more than one body is buried in a grave, unless there is a large number of corpses, and there is a scarcity of graves, and it is impossible to bury them separately.
		Those who hold that the questioning will be addressed only to the soul say that if one were to examine the body in the grave at the time of the questioning, one will notice no trace of its sitting or any other movement.One will also notice that the grave is neither more narrow nor spacious.
	www.usc.edu /dept/MSA/law/fiqhussunnah/fus4_63.html (2622 words)

	The Royal Graves of Ur
		These large, shaft graves were distinct from the surrounding burials and consisted of a tomb, made of stone, rubble and bricks, built at the bottom of a pit.
		In one area of the cemetery a group of sixteen graves was dated to the mid-third millennium.
		The majority of graves had been robbed in antiquity but where evidence survived the main burial was surrounded by many human bodies.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /compass/ixbin/goto?id=enc429 (2622 words)

	Entrance Graves
		Entrance Graves are burial monuments, the primary burial often being cremated bone and charcoal deposited in a small pit in the chamber floor.
		Entrance Graves are upstanding monuments, their mounds reaching 2.5m high with most in the 1m to 1.5m range.
		Entrance Graves are chambered and an unusual feature of this class is that the chambers usually extend well beyond the midpoint of mound.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /megalithics/gloss/egraves.htm (864 words)

	Plague Victims Found: Mass Burial in Athens
		A unique mass grave and nearly 1,000 tombs from the fifth and fourth century B.C. were recovered during excavations prior to construction of a subway station just outside Athens' ancient Kerameikos cemetery.
		Located near the surface, the mass grave was excavated during 1994-95 by Efi Baziotopoulou-Valavani of the Third Ephoreia (Directorate) of Antiquities.
		Both the mass grave and the tombs were destroyed after rescue excavations.
	www.archaeology.org /online/news/kerameikos.html (454 words)

	Ancient Places - Chambered Tombs
		An entrance grave containing burnt human bones and Bronze Age pottery was found in this outer cairn to the south west.
		Carn Gluze is an entrance grave which is known locally as Carn Gloose (it is also referred to as Ballowal Barrow.
		It is a complex structure which excavation has shown began with the digging of a 2.1m pit in which no burials were found, although steps led down into it.
	www.aburton.freeserve.co.uk /cornwall/ch/cham.html (280 words)

	Geo-Graf, Inc. - Grave-Burial Investigation - Project Case History
		Because of the presence of multiple bodies per grave excavation, the lack of coffins, and vertical stacking of bodies, it was not possible to determine the exact number of bodies per burial pit.
		Instead of risking the possibility of unearthing human bones during construction and incurring media scrutiny, Geo-Graf was retained to perform a nonintrusive investigation in an attempt to determine if the mass grave burial sites were located within the proposed construction area.
		It is actual radar data of a human mass grave collected by Geo-Graf engineers utilizing a 550 MHz GPR antenna.
	www.geo-graf.com /graves-ch.htm (280 words)

	Heroes of Might & Magic III (Page 3) Strategy Guide for PC on GamePro.com
		An effective strategy employing this advantage is to attack a neutral army near your main town with several armies of cheap Imps and a large army of Pit Lords.
		Then use your Pit Lords to finish off the enemy, and combine the Demon stacks back in town after upgrading them all into Horned Demons.
		Pit Lords can resurrect any dead allied units as 4th-level Demons.
	www.gamepro.com /computer/pc/games/strategies/2164.shtml (280 words)

	BERSERKISTAN IN BOSNIA: Mass Grave May Hold 2700 Srebrenica Victims
		NOVA KASABA, Bosnia (Reuter) -- U.N. war crimes investigators in Bosnia unearthed a second mass grave on Wednesday, apparently of Muslims killed by Serb forces in the conquest of Srebrenica in mid-1995.
		Gerns' team excavated another mass grave in a mountain forest close to Cerska, not far from Nova Kasaba, a week ago.
		Reporters could smell the stench of putrifying human remains 50 metres (yards) from the pit before being allowed to approach after hours of digging by the investigators.
	www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/berserk/graves_65.html (689 words)

	Comic Bloc Forums - Who Ressurected Jason Todd ?
		Batman talks about the Lazarus Pit being the method in which Jason was ressurected.
		And lastly she could have access to an unknown Lazarus pit that could have been used to bring Jason Back.
		Because of her relationship it is conceivable that she could have been told by Bruce or Alfred the location of Jason's Grave.
	www.comicbloc.com /forums/showthread.php?t=6856 (899 words)

	LUCIFER -- Adam or Satan?
		Satan is never thrown in the grave because he has no part in a natural death as he is a spiritual being.
		Lucifer was never an Arc Angel, he was a MAN. (Satan is a spirit.) Is14:15 says he was brought down to hell, (sheol, place of the dead) the side of the pit.
		Satan was created a tool Isaiah 54:16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his works; and I have created the waster to destroy.
	www.godfire.net /DotHelms.htm (758 words)

	press59.htm
		The government banned open-pit mining in 1999 because of its grave impacts on the environment and human lives.
		Open-pit mining also jeopardizes the lives of indigenous people in the areas as they usually have a high level of dependency on the forests.
		Environmentalists have raised alarm over a recent recommendation from legislators to allow four mining companies to resume open-pit mining operations in protected forests, citing potential huge losses to the country's biodiversity, toxic waste and the ensuing possible loss of human lives.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/press59.htm (637 words)

	Into Cornwall, Ballowall Barrow, Information about Ballowall Barrow, Accommodation in Ballowall Barrow, Hotels in Ballowall Barrow, Hotel in Ballowall Barrow, Camping Ballowall Barrow
		This ancient monument, which could have originated over 5500 years ago, is an entrance grave and contained several chambers.
		The central chamber with its ritual pit area remain.
		Ballowall Barrow is a Scillonian type chamber tomb which has seen multiple additions made to its structure from its earliest Neolithic origins.
	www.intocornwall.com /engine/azabout.asp?id=162&code=b (637 words)

	Kleijn/ariani
		The earlier graves of the Bishkent culture found in the Tulhar cemetery are described as unique in construction (pits with a sloping side entrance); it is the latter ones which have been described as catacombs.
		As with the North-Pontic grave, one of the graves at Gaza (Schaeffer 1948: fig.
		In all cultures of this chain (except the Painted Gray Ware culture, as we do not have the knowledge of inhumation graves), there are paired graves containing male and female skeletons evidently lying in poses of sexual contact.
	www.samorini.net /doc/alt_aut/ek/klejn.htm (6545 words)

	History Department
		This is not the first mass grave to be uncovered in post-Soviet Vilnius.
		Five years ago, residents here stumbled across another one: a pit holding some 500 Lithuanians who had indeed been massacred by Stalin's henchmen in the purges that followed the Soviet invasion of Lithuania during World War II.
		But the troops that staggered into Vilnius were in no shape to regroup: frostbitten by minus-20-degree weather, clad in silks, kerchiefs and women's clothes in a fruitless battle against the cold, they lay down and began to die.
	campus.queens.edu /depts/history/Syllabi/H331/nytimesnapol.htm (6545 words)

	Evolution, settlement plans and architectural highlights
		In one grave, 'the pit yielded a red ware sherd of an urn and very small charred human bone splinters or remains...
		In the passage were found: charred log, plenty of ash and charcoal and 65 burnt sealings of clay, with impressions of the wrapping fiber and knotted thread on one side and of seals on the other.
		A series of square mud-brick blocks were found on the platform with an intermediary passage of 1.2 m.
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/html/settlement_plans_and_architectur.htm (6545 words)

	Hades: The conscious realm of the dead!
		All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, whose graves are set in the remotest parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave.
		(GRAVE: Greek: mneema; Hebrew: kever) Although the body is pictured as returning from the grave (mneema or kever) the body is never pictured as returning from Sheol/Hades.
		While we can enter and leave a tomb or grave (2 Kings 23:16), no one is ever said to enter and then leave Sheol.
	www.bible.ca /su-hades.htm (6600 words)

	Pit Of Horror.com - The Archive - I Spit On Your Grave
		Then "I Spit On Your Grave" (I SPIT) is the horror flick for you!
		Previously banned in certain European countries, I SPIT will appeal to different people for most likely what are very different reasons except one impression which all it's viewers will no doubt share; they will all be no less than 'wide eyed' at this 'no holds barred' type horror classic - that is a fact...
		Be warned, I SPIT is no 'country picnic' and has powerful scenes throughout which many could find unsettling and ultimately disturbing.
	www.pitofhorror.com /features/isoyg.html (220 words)

	YE OLDE NEWS GRAVEYARD
		I was personally amped because I've been a fan of 45 Grave (founders of PFT) since I was a super-young teenager.
		The crowd ebbed and bobbed and started a dance pit.
		Dinah Cancer has been a scene buddy of mine since around the time I started running my clubs.
	www.bubastis.com /funeral/infograveyard.html (220 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM (1961)
		Written by Richard Matheson...perhaps as close to Poe as any 20th Century writer is liable to get...and starring the great Vincent Price, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM is the most viscerally horrifying of all the Corman adaptations of Poe tales.
		The Infernal Regions, the Abode of the Damned, Gehenna, Naracca, Hades...The Pit!
		Nicholas finds his way to the subterranean lair...and then learns the true meaning of horror as Elizabeth's corpse appears to rise from the grave to stalk him!
	www.scifilm.org /reviews2/pitpendulum.html (1215 words)

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	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=one+foot&newu=1&krd=1 (570 words)

	26. Appendix 1: Sheol and the Soul
		Sheol is the proper place-name for "death," "the pit," and "the realm of the dead." Although it includes the place for the conscious "soul" and the "grave" for the body, it never stands for either of them alone.
		While Sheol is the place-name, "death" is the general description, and "the pit" is the geographical description.
		One: Sheol "death" and "the pit" are all-inclusive and inter-changeable terms.
	home.earthlink.net /~russkellyphd/sda/id34.html (845 words)

	Yamna culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yamna (from Russian яма "pit") or Pit Grave or Ochre Grave culture is a late copper age/early bronze age culture of the Bug/Dniester/Ural region, dating to the 36th–23rd centuries BC.
		Characteristic for the culture are the inhumations in kurgans, (tumuli) in pit graves with the dead body placed in a supine position with bent knees.
		Multiple graves have been found in these kurgans, often as later insertions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yamna (845 words)

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