Hillforts are usually attributed to the Iron Age, but there are a series of hillforts at intervals along the Chiltern ridge and that at Ivinghoe Beacon, which is not far away, has been excavated and found to have been built in the late Bronze Age.

Hillforts were known since the Late Bronze Age, but a huge number were constructed in the period 600-400 BCE, particularly in the South ; after about 400 however new ones largely cease to be built and a large number cease to be regularly inhabited, while a smaller number of others become more and more intensively occupied, suggesting a degree of regional centralisation.

Hillforts are interpreted as central places.

A further non-invasive survey was carried out in 1997, as part of the Wessex Hillforts Project, using a magnetometer.

Limited excavations during the 1960s showed that it was built about 400 BC ( See J. Dyer in D. W. Harding ' Hillforts: Later Prehistoric Earthworks ' ( Academic Press ) 1976, p. 153ff.

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The wan light spread over the ground and the valley revealed in the first glimmer the contours of trees and fences and palely shadowed gullies.

He had dinner and sat there over his coffee watching the winding pattern of traffic as it crossed the bridge and spread out like a serpent with two heads.

Since then, the flowers she had planted had spread all over the hill.

lacking that, decayed manure spread over the bed is fine.

Set the apples in the pastry-lined tin, spread over them three tablespoonfuls of softened butter, with as much brown sugar, a sprinkling of nutmeg, and a fresh bay leaf, then lay on a cover of pastry, and gild it with beaten yolk of egg.

Make a paste of brown sugar and mustard and spread lightly over scored surface.

Measurements at 3.15 cm were obtained on 11 days spread over the interval May 3 to June 19, 1956, using the 50-foot reflector at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington.

In all cases the activity against Af cells was spread over a wider area than that with Af cells, regardless of the type of test ( saline, albumin, indirect Coombs ) used for comparison.

or again because the Athabascan languages spread over a very much larger territory ( including three wholly separated areas ) ; ;

Most orthodontists require an initial payment to cover the cost of diagnostic materials and construction of the appliances, but usually the remainder of the cost may be spread over a period of months or years.

One can apply these facts to Britain in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she spread her dominion over palm and pine, and they can be applied again to the United States in more recent years.

They spread over an area no larger than Oregon ; ;

Members of higher and lower social status often cluster around this nucleus, so that Protestant figures on social class give the impression of spread over all social classes ; ;

Even from where he stood he could see the neatly folded blanket that he had spread over Burton, the pillow, the sheet of paper on top of it.

I took the pint bottle from my pocket and handed it over as I sat down beside him on the spread blanket.

Low-flying planes will spread a granular-type chemical, heptachlor, over 30,000 acres in Troup, 37,000 acres in Pierce and 65,000 acres in Bulloch and Bryan counties.

It provides that the $1,800 termination payment each cadet is to get, after serving a two-year hitch without pay, will be spread over both years, not taxed in its entirety at a possibly higher rate in the year received.

Depending on the thickness of the adobe bricks, the framework has been performed using a steel framing and a layering of a metal fencing or wiring over the framework to allow an even load as masses of adobe are spread across the metal fencing like cob and allowed to air dry accordingly.

The first layer spread over the wall of the cavity has been called the " priming ", and upon this base zeolitic minerals may be deposited.

The spread of the Akkadian state as far as the " silver mountain " ( possibly the Taurus Mountains ), the " cedars " of Lebanon, and the copper deposits of Magan, was largely motivated by the goal of securing control over these imports.

He appealed to the populace, and a tumult arose which spread rapidly over the whole city.

Similarly, the language spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British trade and colonization elsewhere and the spread of the former British Empire, which, by 1921, held sway over a population of 470 – 570 million people, approximately a quarter of the world's population at that time.

Dulce de Leche, a popular national spread used to fill cakes and pancakes, eaten over toast, and as an ice cream flavour.

A sweet paste, dulce de leche is another treasured national food, used to fill cakes and pancakes, spread over toasted bread for breakfast, or served with ice cream.

It spread to most of the audience and was often viewed by visiting whites who snickered behind handkerchief and afterward discussed Negro religion.

One of the most intriguing questions is whether the recent departures of the Federal Reserve authorities from confining their open market operations to Treasury bills will spread into longer-term Government securities in the next few months.

The opinion continues here that with a 162-game schedule, pitching spread thin through a 10-team league and a most inviting target in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field Jr., Mantle just might break the most glamorous record on the books, Babe Ruth's 60 homers of 1927.

Aramaic spread across Asia, reaching as far as India and becoming Brahmi, the ancestral abugida to most modern Indian and Southeast Asian scripts.

From Cluny the custom spread to the other houses of the Cluniac order, which became the largest and most extensive network of monasteries in Europe.

His reputation had spread throughout Europe and he was on friendly terms and in communication with most of the major artists including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and — mainly through Lorenzo di Credi — Leonardo da Vinci.

The style started around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe.

About a third of all reports of Bigfoot sightings are concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, with most of the remaining reports spread throughout the rest of North America .< ref name =" Car08_p118 ">< span id =" Car08 "></ span ></ ref > Some Bigfoot advocates, such as John Willison Green, have postulated that Bigfoot is a worldwide phenomenon.

His " Software Tools " series spread the essence of ' C / Unix thinking ' with makeovers for BASIC, FORTRAN, and Pascal-and most notably his ' Ratfor ' ( rational FORTRAN ) was put in the public domain.

Primarily carried by rodents ( most notably rats ) and spread to humans via fleas, the disease is notorious throughout history, due to the unrivaled scale of death and devastation it brought.

A member of the Apiaceae, chervil is native to the Caucasus but was spread by the Romans through most of Europe, where it is now naturalised.

The province of Dalmatia spread inland to cover all of the Dinaric Alps and most of the eastern Adriatic coast.

It most likely originated in North Carolina, but quickly spread across the United States during the 1930s and as far as Australia by the 1940s.

Cable cars rapidly spread to other cities, although the major attraction for most was the ability to displace horsecar ( or mule-drawn ) systems rather than the ability to climb hills.

The liberal trend spread to some nations in Africa in the 1990s, most prominently in South Africa.

Its influence has also spread widely outside East Asia, and is amongst the most translated works in world literature.

Digital television ( including higher quality HDTV ) started to spread in most developed countries in early 2000s.

This use spread to the Americas, former European colonies, and is now prevalent in most of the world.

The most represented case is the spread of mass schooling.

The family is large, with roughly 4000 species spread across 126 genera, making it the 14th most speciose family of flowering plants.

At first the movement grew most in the Russian empire and eastern Europe, but soon spread to western Europe and beyond: to Argentina in 1889 ; to Canada in 1901 ; to Algeria, Chile, Japan, Mexico, and Peru in 1903 ; to Tunisia in 1904 ; and to Australia, the United States, Guinea, Indochina, New Zealand, Tonkin, and Uruguay in 1905.

Although most episodes are brief, seizures sometimes spread and generalize.

The Revolution represented the most significant and dramatic challenge to political absolutism up to that point in history and, despite its failures, spread democratic ideals throughout Europe and ultimately the world.

The fable is one of the most enduring forms of folk literature, spread abroad, modern researchers agree, less by literary anthologies than by oral transmission.