Always extinguish your fire fully, either with water or by covering it with sand or loose earth.

When he cleared the loose earth, what he found was not a rock but a clay head, the first glimpse of the greatest archeological discovery of the 20th century.

We work in a 5ft to 10ft hole, and loose earth falls down all the time.

It digs them up from loose earth with its front claws and captures them with its long, sticky tongue.

As a result the whole mass, to a considerable depth, consisted entirely of loose earth.