When the mining company was digging

[Bassim]

Is my sentence grammatically correct? Is it correct to say "beneath it" as I did, or should be "under it"?

When the mining company was digging into the ground, about ten meters beneath it, the workers found a medieval burial site.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Both are fine when talking about a physical or hierarchial location.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

PS - They are not interchangeable in a sentence like this:

I don't want to work today, but it would be beneath me to call and say I'm under the weather.

 

[Tdol]

You could use something like about ten metres down.

 

[GoesStation]

When the mining company was digging into the ground, about ten meters beneath it, the workers found a medieval burial site.

Unless there's an antecedent in a previous sentence, the reader doesn't know what it refers to. I have a feeling you mean the workers found the site about ten meters beneath the surface.

 

[Tarheel]

Bassim, I like Tdol's suggestion. (When I read that sentence I said to myself, "Beneath what?")