Modifies a noun

• gray: The throat and supercilium were pale rather than ashy gray, identifying it as a first year bird.

• deposit: A possible feature had been half sectioned and one of the fills comprised an ashy deposit.

• layer: It was filled with a tumble of large stones interleaved with ashy layers rich in animal bone.

• soil: Room 20 itself was paved with irregularly placed and unshaped stone slabs, over which lay a dense layer of black ashy soil.

• cloud: Derek found himself standing in the midst of a swirling, ashy cloud.

• fill: Many of the pits contained an ashy fill with abundant charcoal.