| 单词 | crop-mark |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrop-mark crop-mark n. Archaeology (see quot. 1956); also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > soil mark indicating earlier cultivation, etc. cultivation mark1885 crop-mark1935 crop-marking1937 soil mark1939 1935 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 1 157 The two fields showing crop marks. 1947 J. Hawkes & C. Hawkes Prehist. Brit. vii. 161 Two of the most spectacular discoveries made by this crop mark method are the Bronze Age temple of Arminghall and the Roman town of Caistor-by-Norwich where every building was clearly planned in pale lines in the corn. 1956 J. K. S. St. Joseph in R. L. S. Bruce-Mitford Recent Archaeol. Excavations in Brit. 275 In spring and early summer, differences in colour, density or luxuriance of growth commonly develop in response to hidden differences in the soil. These ‘crop-marks’, as they are termed, reveal to an observer, often in the finest detail, buried remains of which no trace can be seen on the surface. < as lemmas |
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