unhewn

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The first 412 Cornellians were scrambling around the unhewn Ithaca campus in the autumn of 1868.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unjebanenjebet combed the showrooms of the local coffin makers, but found no coffin or unhewn block big enough for him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Probably this stone, a massive unhewn block of greenstone-trap, had been a familiar object to him in his youth, for it lay alone in a field close to the Linlithgow road.

From Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine by Gordon, Henry Laing

Pelasgic, pē-las′jik, adj. pertaining to the Pelasgians or Pelasgi, a race spread over Greece in prehistoric times, to whom are ascribed many enormous remains built of unhewn stones, without cement—the so-called Pelasgic architecture.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

We clambered up this, and then perceived, still further to the right, the ruins of several huts and walls, built of unhewn stones and overgrown with the creeping beans.

From The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad by Knight, E. F. (Edward Frederick)