Because of the cold weather, the test pit had to be 2.7 m (9.0 ft) wide.
The test pit was a two-meter square, sunk in the rubble on the far side of the mound.
During this period, a small test pit was sunk into the quartz vein.
They dug test pits at close intervals over the entire site.
Eventually they simply gave up, dumped their tools in one of their test pits, and headed south.
On May 16, 1937 bones were found in a test pit about 110 feet from the second ossuary.
Ten test pits were excavated to confirm the presence of buried debris.
Although test pits were sunk soon after the site's discovery, serious investigation of the site did not start until 1991.
Current knowledge about the ruins of the site is based on a limited number of test pits.
It was jackhammers beginning "test pits" one month early.
