midden

Preposition: of

• shell: Hearths, primitive tools made from flint and middens of shells and bones have been found.

Converse of object

• include: The site has now seen several investigations which have exposed post-built structures and associated features and deposits, including middens and a hearth.
• overlie: Overlying the midden is a living area with a paved limestone floor of around 31.9m x 3.6m.
• empty: The Council's payroll included policemen, firemen, lamplighters, road sweepers, and the men who emptied the back-court middens.
• separate: Also present were features cut into the layer of sand separating the middens.

Adjective modifier

• privy: There are only three open dry privy middens for the convenience of the whole twenty-eight families.
• Mesolithic: Several human finger and toe bones were also found among the animal food refuse in the Mesolithic middens.
• shell: Later investigation has shown the remains of a shell midden in the entrance.
• open: There are only three open dry privy middens for the convenience of the whole twenty-eight families.
• coastal: Here one has the appearance of tells, formalized ditched and palisaded enclosures and the beginnings of larger coastal middens.
• large: Underlying the main living area there is a large shell midden.

Modifies a noun

• deposit: Very close to the surface of the trench a midden deposit was encountered.
• material: The new data also support the suggestion that the shells in both 14 C series reflect cultural midden material rather than natural shell.
• heap: The Act made provision for waste to be stored in ' midden heaps ' located next to people's houses.
• area: A midden area was located consisting of lots of crab and bird remains but only small quantities of fish bone.
• sample: They also collected a further series of midden samples for laboratory analysis ( column 3 ).
• closet: There is a midden closet that is emptied once a year.

Noun used with modifier

• shell: Underlying the main living area there is a large shell midden.
• kitchen: In the gully below is a mound of rich soil that is probably the kitchen midden.
• century: On another part of the site we found a 16th Century corn drying kiln, and 17th Century midden ( rubbish dumps ).