unhewn

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

They are totally unhewn, and vary considerably in form and size.

From Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys by Farrer, James Anson

Dolmen, dol′men, n. a stone table: the French name for a cromlech, a prehistoric structure of two or more erect unhewn stones, supporting a large flattish stone.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Two concentric ramparts of unhewn stones, flung together more rudely than a Parisian barricade, exhibiting the science of fortification in its very infancy, inclose a circular area of considerable extent.

From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy