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A History of the County of Oxford
… The south-west side has been dug into, apparently for quarrying. Like other rectangular works in this county its …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Dorset (Fig. opp. p. 634). Most are on chalk and limestone but some are on the Clay-with-Flints often capping … remains completely, these fields have been damaged by quarrying for flints, as in Groups (11) and (15), or by … or on flat ground. Relatively massive stony banks on a limestone plateau in Group (23) suggest former walls. The …
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… later prehistoric and Romano- British settlement of upland limestone and gritstone margins of the Peak District and N.E …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and North Petherton hundreds was held at Lypestone or Limestone Hill in Cannington parish twice a year before 1652 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… and an external ditch, have been extensively damaged by quarrying but there are at least two well-marked house …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… The whole extent of the parish is incumbent upon a bed of limestone belonging to the calciferous sandstone of the old … or fresh-water deposit, rarely met with in Scotland. Limestone is burnt for agricultural and building purposes, … shale bed containing slabs of highly crystalized limestone. Angus. ANGUS.See Forfarshire. Annan ANNAN, a royal …
A History of the County of Oxford
… operations, since even the graves, as usual in a limestone site, were for the most part shallow, averaging in … were a burial and an urn. The grave, 3 ft. deep in the limestone, contained the skeleton of an adult, orientated … In 1929 objects found by Mr. Brown of North Leigh in quarrying on the north side of the road to Wilcot, …