pit **
quarry
stone pit

The "cell" was actually nothing more than a grate-covered stone pit.

It comprised a circular stone pit in the floor, a low curbing.

We were in the bottom of a narrow stone pit.

As owner of a stone pit he made a fortune with contracts from the time the Danube was regulated.

It was dark inside the building; there was only a small fire burning in a stone pit.

The dimness was cosmetic; I couldn't see the actual mines, which are open stone pits.

A large stone pit sat in the center.

Now he works in a stone pit carting rocks to a railroad depot.

Roza takes a job in the stone pit, and they pool their pennies.

Do you know, Head Nodder, even this stone pit looks beautiful and inviting now?