stack-fields

Updated: May 10, 2025

At this place the dead were accumulated, I think beyond precedent, the dark plain around for at least three miles being as strewn as a reaped field with stacks, and, near the bank, much more strewn than stack-fields, filling the only house within sight of the pit-mouth the small place provided for the company's officials and even lying over the great mountain-heap of wark, composed of the shale and débris of the working.

M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel - The Purple Cloud