History in Earth and Stone: Prehistoric and Roman Monuments in England and Wales |
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ancient antiquities architecture Avebury bank and ditch Belgic bowl barrows Britain Bronze Age built burial buried camps capstone causewayed cave Celtic centre century B.C. chalk chamber chambered long barrow circular coast Cornwall Cotswolds countryside Cranborne Chase Dartmoor defences dolmen Dorset downland Dyke early earthworks east edge embanked enclosed enclosure England entrance excavation famous feet flint Forest forts Hill hill-forts hundred huts Iron Age known limestone long barrow Maiden Castle megalithic Mendips miles monuments Moor moorland mound mountains northern perhaps prehistoric probably ramparts remains ridge ring river rocks Roman road Roman Town round barrows round cairns running sanctuary Saxon scarp seen settlement side slabs slopes South Downs south-west southern standing stones Stone Age stone circle stone rows Stonehenge summit surviving Sussex tombs traveller upland uprights Vale valley village Wales walls Wessex Wiltshire Wolds Yorkshire