sondagen.

Brit.

/sɒnˈdɑːʒ/, U.S.

/ˌsɑnˈdɑʒ/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French sondage.

Etymology: < French sondage trench or hole dug to investigate strata, test pit (1859 or earlier in archaeological use; 1773 in sense ‘action of investigating strata by means of a sounding device’, originally in mining) < sonder sound v.² + -age -age suffix.

Archaeology.

A deep trench or hole dug to investigate the order and relative position of strata within a site.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > archaeological expedition or excavation > trench

test-pit1896

sondage1914

robber trench1932

trial trench1947

1914 Jrnl. Egyptian Archaeol. 1 175 A trench such as that of which the section is shown would constitute an admirable sondage.

1930 Discovery Aug. 259/1 Against the south angle of the northern harbour a fairly prominent mound invited a sondage, and it proved to conceal a temple more perfectly preserved than any hitherto found in Mesopotamia.

1955 L. Woolley Alalakh i. 6 In 1948 and 1949 Mr. Sinclair Hood made sondages at Tabara al Akrad.

1977 P. Barker Techniques Archaeol. Excavation 76 Holes dug into extensive layers can be disastrous for their subsequent interpretation, and anyway the information gained by a ‘sondage’, however small, relates only to the area of the sondage.

2005 C. Wickham Framing Early Middle Ages viii. 506 Excavations have not yet been carried out there, except for a sondage at Malay (Yonne).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sondage
释义	sondagen. Brit. /sɒnˈdɑːʒ/, U.S. /ˌsɑnˈdɑʒ/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French sondage. Etymology: < French sondage trench or hole dug to investigate strata, test pit (1859 or earlier in archaeological use; 1773 in sense ‘action of investigating strata by means of a sounding device’, originally in mining) < sonder sound v.² + -age -age suffix. Archaeology. A deep trench or hole dug to investigate the order and relative position of strata within a site. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > archaeological expedition or excavation > trench test-pit1896 sondage1914 robber trench1932 trial trench1947 1914 Jrnl. Egyptian Archaeol. 1 175 A trench such as that of which the section is shown would constitute an admirable sondage. 1930 Discovery Aug. 259/1 Against the south angle of the northern harbour a fairly prominent mound invited a sondage, and it proved to conceal a temple more perfectly preserved than any hitherto found in Mesopotamia. 1955 L. Woolley Alalakh i. 6 In 1948 and 1949 Mr. Sinclair Hood made sondages at Tabara al Akrad. 1977 P. Barker Techniques Archaeol. Excavation 76 Holes dug into extensive layers can be disastrous for their subsequent interpretation, and anyway the information gained by a ‘sondage’, however small, relates only to the area of the sondage. 2005 C. Wickham Framing Early Middle Ages viii. 506 Excavations have not yet been carried out there, except for a sondage at Malay (Yonne). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1914
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