Use for houses, common during the prehistoric periods of many cultures, whose floors are dug out deeply below the adjacent ground level; use "sunken huts" for multipurpose buildings of the first millennium CE, found in England and throughout northern Europe.
AAT
3000137644
dwellings, pit
houses, pit
pit houses
pit-dwellings
pithouses
12yrs ago
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