'excavation pit' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing the excavation of an archaeological site or the digging of a hole for construction purposes. For example: "The archaeologists dug an excavation pit in the ground to uncover the ancient artifacts."
The zones included 0 for cells not considered for any activity, 1 for the driveway, 2 for the excavation pit, 3 for the loading area of the excavator, and 4 for the trailer.
A 35 cm monolith of sediments was collected from the excavation pit.
The next weekend he dug an excavation pit, just as he had learned from the bone diggers.
For 15 hours they had worked in the shadow of an unsupported brick wall that loomed over their excavation pit.
Matthew disengaged an alarm that deters baboons, and we entered the graceful open-air shelter that had been built above the excavation pit.
Looking south across the excavation pit, one can see city buses moving past the shored-up brick facade that remains on 49th Street between Second and Third Avenues.
Excavation pits were filled, olive groves replanted and the ancient city was lost again.
Researchers now want to return to the site to dig a trench that links the excavation pits and then work outwards, in the hope of revealing more tracks.
The crews have gone home, their excavation pits refilled with clay, the buttons and cow bones and glass shards they unearthed bagged and ready for analysis.
Sanchez said that this year, excavation pits would be filled in to avoid damage to the older site during the ritual, which is due to begin next week.
To assess the impact of reef-flat excavation pits on wave transformation, a numerical study is carried out based on one-dimensional weakly dispersive, highly nonlinear Boussinesq equations.
