A photograph of an excavation pit dug into reddish-brown laterite soil. A yellow excavator's metal digging bucket, with its teeth visible, is at the right edge scooping earth. Exposed dirt walls, loose clods and scattered stones fill the pit, with dry shrubs in the lower left foreground. No people are visible. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph of an excavation pit dug into reddish-brown laterite soil. A yellow excavator's metal digging bucket, with its teeth visible, is at the right edge scooping earth. Exposed dirt walls, loose clods and scattered stones fill the pit, with dry shrubs in the lower left foreground. No people are visible.

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