As evidence, they highlighted the existence of a posthole near to the monument's southern entrance that would have once supported a large wooden post. |
Before a totem pole went up, the host sometimes had slaves killed and thrown into the posthole. |
The sides of this, as of all of them, large or small, were as smooth and hard as if made with a posthole digger or a boring tool. |
In some West African cults, for example, before the central pole of a shrine or a house is installed, an animal is ritually slain, its blood being poured around the foundations and its body being put into the posthole. |
Augers for sampling placers can vary from small hand-held posthole size machines up to very large truck-mounted machines. |
We noticed footprints and a posthole, perhaps a stake to support a wooden structure on the water. |