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army

army  

Long before the Norman Conquest, military obligation seems to have divided into two basic forms. One was an obligation for service by all adult males, established in English law as the militia by the ...
barrow

barrow  

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Tumulus, or large mound of stones and earth over a burial. A long-barrow or long cairn may be a long, rectangular mound covering wooden or stone burial-chambers intended for communal entombment. A ...
Beaker culture

Beaker culture  

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[CP]A general term for widely scattered groups of late Neolithic and early Bronze Age communities of the late 3rd and early 2nd millennia bc, whose material culture includes substantial amounts of ...
Britain

Britain  

The largest of the British Isles, including what is now called England, Wales, and Scotland. Until Roman times the island's inhabitants were dominantly Brythonic Celts, ancestors of the modern Welsh ...
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World Encyclopedia

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2004
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Period in human cultural development between the Neolithic period and the discovery of iron-working techniques (the Iron Age). In

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The Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History

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2003
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The prehistoric era between the Stone Age and the Iron Age, lasting from c.2,500 bc to c.800

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The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)

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2009
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The prehistoric era between the Stone Age and the Iron Age, lasting from c.2500 bc to c.800 bc...

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)

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a prehistoric period that followed the Stone Age and preceded the Iron Age, when weapons and tools were made of bronze rather than stone....

cairn

cairn  

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[De]A general term used to describe a deliberately constructed pile of stones or stone rubble, often forming a burial mound or barrow, but sometimes the result of clearing fields in preparation for ...
climate

climate  

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The characteristic pattern of weather elements in an area over a period. The weather elements include temperature, rainfall, humidity, solar insolation, wind, etc. The climate of a large area is ...
Copper Age

Copper Age  

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The stage of technological development between the introduction of copper and the manufacture of bronze (an alloy of copper and tin) in the Bronze Age. As copper was initially very scarce, the impact ...
dyke

dyke  

1 An embankment made of earth and rock, for example to prevent a spill from spreading or to prevent flooding.2 A steeply inclined layer of intrusive igneous rock, formed from cooling magma, that is ...
Greece

Greece  

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Greece has seen considerable benefits from EU membership but has now fallen deep into debtMost of Greece is mountainous. The mainland is dominated by the rugged Pindus Mountains, which extend from ...
heathen sites

heathen sites  

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Pope Gregory advised Augustine and his fellow missionaries who arrived in Kent in 597 not to destroy idol temples but to convert them to Christian usage. The sites of many cathedrals and parish ...
henge

henge  

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[MC]A distinctive class of late Neolithic ceremonial enclosure found throughout the British Isles, dating mainly to the middle and later 3rd millennium bc, perhaps with origins among the formative ...
hut circle

hut circle  

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[MC]A circular or oval depression in the ground with traces of a low wall around it representing the stone foundation of a round house whose superstructure was of timber and thatch. Found in large ...
Iron Age

Iron Age  

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The prehistoric period of human culture which began in Europe around 1000 bc (after the Bronze Age), during which iron was the main material used for making tools and weapons.
megalith

megalith  

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A large stone that forms a prehistoric monument (e.g. a standing stone) or part of one (e.g. a stone circle or chambered tomb).
moor

moor  

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An acidic, usually upland area, commonly with peat development, dominated by low-growing heaths and heathers, with some areas dominated by grasses and sedges.
Mycenae

Mycenae  

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An ancient city in Greece, situated near the coast in the NE Peloponnese, the centre of the late Bronze Age Mycenaean civilization. The capital of King Agamemnon, it was at its most prosperous in the ...

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