This is thought to date back to early times in the quarrying industry, where piles of extracted stone ( not fit for sale ) were built into tall rough walls ( to save space ) directly behind the working quarry face ; the rabbit's natural tendency to burrow would weaken these " walls " and cause collapse, often resulting in injuries or even death.

Traditional economic activities in San Marino were food crops, sheep farming, and stone quarrying.

The region is known for stone quarrying specifically in the Swietokrzyskie Mountains and in the Lublin Upland primarily to produce limestone, marl, marble, and basalt.

They construct at least 16 forts, about 15, 000 legionaries digging ditches, quarrying rock and cutting stone, preventing idleness which led to unrest and rebellions in the ranks.

While in operation, they were the source of quarrying for stone for Hitler's prestige projects across the Reich.

The quarrying of stone in Quorn began at a very early age at Buddon Wood, on the edge of the parish.

* Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation, a British stone quarrying company

Although the line was never extended over the mountains, it opened up the quarrying of stone for the railroad at Stout, furnishing another industry for the region.

When the town was platted in 1876, the citizens wished to choose a name, which would suggest the chief industry in the area, stone quarrying.

Many islets are like small communities by themselves, with interesting histories of trading, fishing and stone quarrying in addition to their scenic nature.

Known as the Tudek and Houserville Sites, they were used during the Archaic period for the quarrying and reduction of stone tools made of jasper.

E. S. Parker was a major stockholder of the blue stone quarrying business in the village.

This destruction continued during the Spanish conquest and colonial period, and during 19th century and the early 20th century, and has included quarrying stone for building and railroad construction and target practice by military personnel.

The name Anston is thought to derive from " an stan " ( a stone ) as opposed to anything based on the suffix-ton, and there is much evidence of quarrying in the area.

The word quarry can include underground quarrying for stone, such as Bath stone.

No significant mining activity is currently practised, with the exception of quarrying for stone.

The site has been altered by stone quarrying and by the efforts of Goodwin and others to move the stones to what they considered their original locations, with Goodwin perhaps responsible for much of what can now be seen.

To avoid disturbing the site at surface level, the company has applied and received permission to extract the stone using mining rather than quarrying techniques.

This area of the Polden Hills was in use for quarrying of stone and lime burning from 1888 until 1973.

The path then follows Seaton Bay past Beer, with Beer Caves a man-made cave complex, resulting from the quarrying of Beer stone and Seaton before going through The Undercliff SSSI and NNR and crossing the border into Dorset shortly before reaching Lyme Regis.

Deflagration systems and products can also be used in mining, demolition and stone quarrying via gas pressure blasting as a beneficial alternative to high explosives.

The largest industries of the valley after tourism are stone quarrying and dairy production.

In contrast to the decorative Purbeck marble, Purbeck limestone, or more commonly ' Purbeck stone ', has been used in construction locally since the early days of quarrying in Purbeck.

Western observers also have noted Eritrea ’ s excellent potential for quarrying ornamental marble and granite.

Other materials such as DDNP ( diazo dinitro phenol ) are also used as the primary charge to reduce the amount of lead emitted into the atmosphere by mining and quarrying operations.

Babcock also was the first to begin quarrying Kasota limestone in and around the city of Kasota.

The quarrying sector also provides employment in limestone processing and distribution.

Early activity was mainly concerned with control over the grazing and quarrying of the common, but since 1980 grazing has stopped and instead various techniques have taken its place to prevent the common from reverting to scrub and woodland. There has also been development on the commons which many locals oppose and believe is not legitimate.

Unfortunately, quarrying also destroyed several spectacular geological features on Stone Mountain, such as the Devil's Crossroads, which was located on top of the mountain.

Monkseaton, which forms the greater part of the north west of the district, is also very old and its industries were common with those of Whitley being chiefly coalmining and limestone quarrying.

The majority of commercial activity in Maidan Wardak is related to trade in agricultural and livestock products, although stone quarrying is also a growing business in the area.

There is again evidence of charcoal and white coal manufacture in the form of charcoal hearths and Q-pits, and also evidence of former quarrying and boundary ditches, which may indicate that the area was at one time cleared for agriculture.

Milling of the red gum timber became an important industry, and charcoal burning, tanning, quarrying and brick making also flourished.

As well as short stories Roberts also wrote novels, perhaps her most famous being Traed mewn cyffion (" Feet in chains ") ( 1936 ) which reflected the hard life of a slate quarrying family.

Granite was exported by rail to ports like Liverpool and the cities of England and by sea from the two quarrying jetties to Liverpool and also to a number of European ports such as Hamburg.

Human-induced changes caused by nearly 1, 000 years of continual sandstone quarrying have also contributed in parts of the sandstone highlands to the appearance of the landscape today.

Coal mining on the Mendips was an important source of wealth while quarrying also took place, an example is near Bath.

Harthill is traditionally an agricultural village, although there is also a history of quarrying whetstones for use in knife-sharpening.

Remains of granite quarrying can also still be made out.

There are also quarrying operations on the island and a large shipyard.

The cones are also protected by a 1915 law, the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1915, which was passed due to early concern that the distinctive landscape was being eroded, especially by quarrying.

These hills have been threatened by quarrying and also plans to carve these hills into statues.

The main industry in the 18th and 19th century was farming although there was also extensive quarrying.

Mātanginui Pā was also largely destroyed by quarrying from 1870 onwards and is now the site of the Greenmount Landfill.

Given that the building of the extensive Necropolis that abuts it on the hillside above involved removing a huge amount of the original overlaying rock, it is also possible that this ' canyon ' extended even further before men began quarrying there.

Farming and quarrying were the main livelihoods, and Mansfield Woodhouse also prospered with the growth of the textile and hosiery trades into the 19th century.