spoil heap

She'd already visited the spoil heap on the waste ground.

The site of the mine and its spoil heaps remain.

The new park on the coal field spoil heap was chosen as the winner.

We were shown around by the site director, who pointed out some of its features and also the spoil heaps.

These are identifiable as the spoil heap is on the downward slope.

He laughed and strode off toward the half-consumed spoil heap.

Also, the ground is famous for being overlooked by the huge colliery spoil heap.

After the spoil heaps settled, from building the tunnel, the woodland grew back.

They ended up in different drawers or relegated to the spoil heaps of less interesting material.

A daunting task lay ahead, as the spoil heaps covered an area of about 300 square yards.

Much of the route is through a mining landscape, with spoil heaps and flooded pits.

The landscape is still marked by enormous spoil heaps, those of pits 11 and 19, visible for miles around.

He attracted attention at age five by collecting fossils from the local colliery spoil heaps.

There is evidence of old pits in the surrounding woods, and several old spoil heaps.

The spoil heaps from the years of mining coal are now disappearing, as they contain material which can be used in road building.

These structures, the cliff faces, the spoil heaps and ghosts are part of a legacy which is almost unknown.

We found more than 100 coins from the spoil heaps, plus two small disc brooches and a nice iron key.

There is a large bing (spent shale spoil heap) in the village.

There are numerous mine buildings, former spoil heaps and iron and steel plants.

A rescue dig in 1989-1991 failed to find the chapel, which was surmised to be under an industrial spoil heap to the south.

The spoil heaps from these mines form large banks where silver birch and larch now grow.

The most popular suggestion for the origin of the name is that it refers to the early mining spoil heaps which dotted the area.

Spoil heaps on the top edge of the slope had not moved and therefore could not have contributed to the slip.

The spoil heap is progressively enlarged by tipping off the vertical end face of the barrow-run.

Large areas of the upper valley are covered in spoil heaps from the mining activity, and a number of buildings remain.