= A bunch of people, risking their lives, to dig up artifacts and effects which could just as easily have been handed to them as they just came off a shelf in a warehouse See exercise in futility
{i} act of hollowing out, act of digging out; act of unearthing, act of laying bare; dig, excavation site (i.e. archeological dig)
A hole, tunnel, shaft, quarry, or pit where soil and/or rock have been removed from the Earth