A pit-house (or pit house, pithouse) is a house built in the ground and used for shelter. Besides providing shelter from the most extreme of weather conditions...
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The Money Pit is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long as a couple who attempt to renovate...
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Eiríksstaðir (section Pit-house)
front of the ruins yielded a date of the 9th–10th century. In 2000 a pit-house was excavated next to the main building. Among other finds in the floor...
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Dugout (shelter) (redirect from Picts' house)
A dugout or dug-out, also known as a pit-house or earth lodge, is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression...
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It comprises two sections, Amnya I and Amnya II, each a series of ten pit-houses of varying sizes about 50 meters apart. They are built atop a steep escarpment...
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Particularly the buildings of the Ise Grand Shrine, which contrast with the pit-houses typical of the Neolithic Yayoi period. They propose significant Neolithic...
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The White House horseshoe pit is a horseshoe pit on the South Lawn of the White House, the official residence of the president of the United States. It...
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The Gravel Pit Chapel was established in 1715–1716 (308 years ago) (1716) in Hackney, then just outside London, for a Nonconformist congregation, which...
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Ancestral Puebloans (section Great Houses)
lived in a range of structures that included small family pit houses, larger structures to house clans, grand pueblos, and cliff-sited dwellings for defense...
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now a mountain hut for overnight hikers. Burdei or bordei – a dugout or pit-house with a sod roof in Romania, Ukraine and Canada. Cabana – an open shelter...
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