There can be few more evocative sites in the British landscape than ancient barrows of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. |
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The only comparisons we know are two Early Bronze Age barrows in Northamptonshire, at Irthlingborough, and Gayhurst. |
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Typical of the Medway group of long barrows, it comprises three large uprights supporting a single massive capstone. |
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Across Britain and Ireland there are thousands of Iron Age barrows and burial mounds, and hundreds of Iron Age hill forts. |
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As in many monument complexes, burials were inserted into existing mounds, and barrows were built among and onto them. |
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With its prehistoric burial mounds, barrows and encampments, its feudal laws and time-trapped settlements, the New Forest is anything but. |
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Similar Bronze Age cemeteries consisting of many small barrows have been found elsewhere in Essex, for example at Ardleigh and Brightlingsea. |
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Roman-period burials and other finds are fairly common on the sites of Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows. |
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The most likely source of destruction is now from badgers which have already caused much damage to barrows, burial sites and other monuments. |
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There were some barrows with a political message, like to one containing just a pile of manure with a sign saying Sponsored by Brussels. |
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Addington is the larger of two adjacent long barrows overlooking a tributary of the Medway. |
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York's seven Visitor Information Patrols are rolling out their barrows and are ready to welcome tourists to the city. |
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He came to a corner, but she was lost in the crowd around a line of street barrows selling clothing and a little food. |
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These were all purchased from street barrows when second-hand books were sold at a cost of about sixpence each. |
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The rink will literally be smashed up, the ice wheeled out in barrows and deposited in an environmentally friendly fashion. |
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The children built their own BMX course anyway, on waste ground where it harmed nobody, erecting jumps with barrows and spades. |
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But barrows, tombs, sacred springs, stone circles and surviving customs are satisfactory starting points for the study of non-revealed religious or magical rites. |
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Photos from 1912 show men in flat caps wielding barrows of earth beside the riverbeds. |
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It is expressed in the votive paintings, in the barrows and in the representation of the knightly and epic cycle. |
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Each day she studied its scarred walls and empty windows and watched the men at work as they mixed wet concrete in barrows and hauled boards up to the roof. |
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The appearance of urnfields marks a major transition in burial rites from the previous predominance of inhumations, often under round barrows, to a predominance of cremations. |
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Some people may simply not want to know that that field boundary runs under that ruined mine building, or that the round barrows are intervisible with the stone circle. |
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Throughout his career since leaving Cambridge he pursued an interest in archaeology, at first studying barrows and burial sites and later hillforts. |
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In prehistoric Britain early agricultural communities deposited their dead in communal, highly visible locations such as chambered tombs, barrows and burial cairns. |
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Market barrows, or costermongers, originated in the East End of London and remain a popular scene in places like Victoria Station, Covent Garden and Leather Lane in Holborn. |
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Why should we confine a body of men to making laws, when so many of them might be more usefully employed in wheeling barrows? |
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They also became venerated objects, and were frequently buried in long barrows or round barrows with their former owners. |
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Fruit and vegetables are piled artfully in barrows and crates. |
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Its monuments comprise the henge and associated long barrows, stone circles, avenues, and a causewayed enclosure. |
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Among the sites are Parknabinnia and Creevagh wedge tombs, Muchinish Castles, ring barrows, and Carran Church. |
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Battlegore Burial Chamber is a Bronze Age burial chamber at Williton which is composed of three round barrows and possibly a long, chambered barrow. |
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Mustachioed men, enigmas in their dark, hooded djellabas, wield barrows swollen with writhing turtles, honey-sweet dates and jangling copper kettles. |
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As the hawkers move in with their barrows, a man selling fried squid sets up his stall next to a woman displaying shawls with Louis Vuitton logos. |
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Remains of folding stools are known from sites such as those at Ostia, Italy, and barrows in Britain on the Essex-Cambridgeshire border, and in Kent. |
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At night, they would sleep in or under barrows or under the open sky. |
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The most commonly used transport modes remain motorcycles, bicycles, barrows, carts, small boats and walking, often with goods loaded on the back or head. |
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This includes turning over small boats and wading pools when not in use, dumping water out of empty tires, wheel barrows, and other outdoor objects, and replacing water in outdoor pet dishes at least twice a week. |
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They are bringing bricks in on bikes, in cars, on motorcycles, in wheel barrows, in prams and strollers, in basins, etc. I had lunch in a small house that's been completed, with running water and electricity. |
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It was not unusual for the older girls to stay on after 5 p.m. for another two hours or so, to buck or cob an extra one or two barrows. |
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He excavated some 24 barrows before digging in and around the stones and discovered charred wood, animal bones, pottery and urns. |
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Viking barrows are one of the primary source of evidence for circumstances in the Viking Age. |
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Early Bronze Age Britons buried their dead beneath earth mounds known as barrows, often with a beaker alongside the body. |
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Several Bronze Age round barrows were opened by John Skinner in the 18th century. |
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Over six hundred Bronze Age barrows and cairns, of various types, have been identified all over Glamorgan. |
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Mostly they caught fluke, which would then be sold from barrows pushed around the housing estates. |
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The site was excavated in 1817 revealing nothing of significance in the long barrow, but several cremations in the round barrows. |
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Many barrows surround it and an unusual number of 'rich' burials can be found nearby, such as the Amesbury Archer. |
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In the Urnfield period, inhumation and burial in single flat graves prevails, though some barrows exist. |
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The oldest graves consisted of wooden chambered cairns inside long barrows, but were later made in the form of passage graves and dolmens. |
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There are a number of round barrows and bell barrows in various locations, mostly dating to the Bronze Age. |
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On the high moorlands are many hut circles, enclosures, and barrows, all dating from the Bronze Age. |
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They feature everything from carpet cleaners, power drills and wallpaper strippers to tree pruners,sack barrows and transit vans. |
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No long barrows with wooden internal structures have been identified in southeast Wales, perhaps because long barrows were usually built where there was no suitable stone. |
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There is substantial evidence of Neolithic activity within the North Downs, notably the long barrows concentrated in the Medway and Stour valleys. |
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He made a bathroom of gritstone and ceramic tile, he even had a sink with faucets, a boiler for hot water, and I lent a few barrows of gravel to him to build a septic tank. |
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Neolithic people in the British Isles built long barrows and chamber tombs for their dead and causewayed camps, henges, flint mines and cursus monuments. |
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Our prehistoric monuments, the barrows, enclosures, hillforts and the like are, for the most part, earthen in that their material sources were engirdling ditches. |
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He also began the excavation of many of the barrows in the area, and it was his interpretation of the landscape that associated it with the Druids. |
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Cunnington made meticulous recordings of neolithic and Bronze Age barrows, and the terms he used to categorize and describe them are still used by archaeologists today. |
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