The field around it had been crudely bulldozed away—not too long ago, judging by the way the ground gave under my shoes—but a cushion around the stone had been left untouched, so that it rode high like an island amid the churned earth
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churn - "to stir or agitate violently / an old stern-wheeler churning the muddy river / larger particles pound and churn the Moon's surface— E. M. Shoemaker" (