By 1976, the story had become sufficiently safe in Britain to be parodied by Morecambe and Wise ; a " play what Ernie wrote ", The Handyman and M ' Lady, was obviously based on it, with Michele Dotrice as the Lady Chatterley figure.

Perkins suggests that ( saving perhaps the opening of trade with British India ), " Jay did fail to win anything the Americans were not obviously entitled to, liberation of territory recognized as theirs since 1782, and compensation for seizures that even Britain admitted were illegal.

* In Great Britain, comic Les Dawson's Fieldsian character, Zebediah Twain, was obviously an affectionate tribute.

Birds of the subspecies U. a. albionis are dark brown rather than black, most obviously so in colonies in southern Britain.

This seems to have been important in giving a free hand in foreign affairs to rulers, beginning with Augustus, and most obviously with Tiberius and Claudius ( who conquered Britain ).

At this point, Hitler was still obviously considering an invasion of Britain, and it was within this context that Student suggested a diversionary paratrooper attack on Northern Ireland to coincide with German landings on the south coast of England.

In Britain unused postage stamps could be redeemed for cash at the post office, but a perforated stamp had obviously been stolen so the use of perfins gave organisations better security over their postage.

* In the last part of Arthur, Arthur is sent a message from a certain " Lucius, Procurator of the Republic " of Constantinople, who never existed, although Lawhead here is obviously relating to the History of the Kings of Britain, which mentions such an emperor.

That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.

Euan MacKie has supported Thom's analysis, to which he added an archaeological context by comparing Neolithic Britain to the Mayan civilization to argue for a stratified society in this period.

There is good archaeological evidence for this process and crucibles used to produce brass by cementation have been found on Roman period sites including Xanten and Nidda in Germany, Lyon in France and at a number of sites in Britain.

From archaeological finds in Great Britain, the Romans appeared to have attempted to protect their horses ' feet with a strap-on, solid-bottomed " hipposandal " that has a slight resemblance to the modern hoof boot.

Thus, most knowledge of Roman Britain has derived from archaeological investigations, and the epigraphic evidence lauding the Britannic achievements of an Emperor of Rome, such as Hadrian ( r. 117 – 38 ) and Antoninus Pius ( r. 138 – 61 ), whose walls demarcated the northern borders of Roman Britain.

In the archaeology of northern Europe, for example for archaeological sites in Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, Ukraine, and Russia, the term " Mesolithic " is almost always used.

The Romans achieved the heavy wheeled mouldboard plough in the late 3rd and 4th century AD, when archaeological evidence appears, inter alia, in Roman Britain.

Its strategic position has been evident throughout its history: archaeological finds have revealed that the area has always been a focus for peoples entering and leaving Britain.

In 1925, the Institute offered him " one of the very few archaeological jobs in Britain ", and he became their librarian, and in doing so he helped to cement connections with scholars working in other parts of Europe.

There is archaeological evidence of destruction by raiders between 170 – 200, ranging along the Continental coast down to the Bay of Biscay, to northwest Belgica ( e. g., fire destruction at Amiens, Thérouanne, Vendeuil-Caply, Beauvais, Bavai, Tournai and Arras ), to coastal Britain ( e. g., fire destruction at the eastern Essex sites of Chelmsford, Billericay, Gestingthorpe, Braintree, Wickford, Kelvedon, Great Chesterford and Harlow ).

While no major historical events have taken place in Ickenham, settlements dating back to the Roman occupation of Britain have been discovered during archaeological surveys, and the area appears in the Domesday Book.

There is a nature reserve and a number of sites of archaeological interest, including the only location in Great Britain where prehistoric mummies have been found.

The archaeological site of Cladh Hallan, the only site in Great Britain where prehistoric mummies have been found, is on South Uist.

From early in the archaeological record, the peoples of North West Europe, including Britain, Gaul, Spain and Ireland had mutually warred, traded and settled.

In Britain it now occurs naturally only in Scotland, but historical and archaeological records indicate that it also occurred in Wales and England until about 300 – 400 years ago, becoming extinct there due to over-exploitation and grazing ; it has been re-introduced in these countries.

Archaeology is Rubbish describes a fictional excavation site in an ordinary suburban back garden, and discusses the evidence from different archaeological periods, the various field methods and techniques used by the excavators, and the legal proceedings and problems that archaeologists in Britain face.

Contrary to his account archaeological evidence indicates that Domitian did not immediately abandon all efforts to subjugate the remainder of Britain.

As the oldest archaeological library in the country, the Library holds an outstanding collection of British county histories, a fine collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century books on the antiquities of Britain and other countries and an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of periodical titles ( British and foreign ) with runs dating back to the early to mid-nineteenth century.

Unencumbered by subsequent development, this is considered to be one of the most important archaeological sites in Britain.

Because no literature of pre-Roman Britain has survived, its history, culture and way of life are known mainly through archaeological finds.

The dispute essentially revolves around how the word " Celtic " is defined ; it is clear from the archaeological and historical record that Iron Age Britain did have much in common with Iron Age Gaul, but there were also many differences.

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Following the recession of the Scandinavian ice sheet, which covered most of northern Europe, from Great Britain to Moscow, around 8000 BC, peoples began arriving in what is today Finland presumably mainly from the south and east although recent archaeological finds reveal a presence of the north-western Komsa culture in Finnish north equally old to the earliest finds on the Norwegian coast.

It was therefore not until the publication of J.H. Round's `` The Settlement Of The South And East Saxons '', and W.H. Stevenson's `` Dr. Guest And The English Conquest Of South Britain '', that a scientific basis for place-name studies was established.

Two items of place-name evidence also attest to Maponos in Britain.

The ancient Greeks and Romans used the name Belerion or Bolerium for the south-west tip of the island of Britain, but the late-Roman source for the Ravenna Cosmography ( compiled about 700 CE ) introduces a place-name Puro coronavis, the first part of which seems to be a misspelling of Duro ( meaning Fort ).

* Holt, an area of woodland, e. g. a grove or copse, especially as a place-name in Great Britain, Scandinavia, Iceland, and Germany ( with variant spellings ).

This line of thought holds that this American national culture derived most of its traits and characteristics from early colonial settlers from Britain, Ireland, and Germany.

In western Britain beyond Anglo-Saxon influence, in Cornwall and South Wales particularly, enclosed settlements share many characteristics with their Irish counterparts including the circular form and occurrence of souterrains ( fogous ) and their continuing occupation into the early medieval period ; the form later influencing the distinctive circular shell-keeps found across the medieval ' Severnside ' region.

These are mainly made of a type of sandstone, known as Torridonian sandstone ( see Geology of Great Britain ), which over time has become eroded to produce the unique characteristics of the Torridon Hills.

Lieutenant Barksdale received his wings in Great Britain in 1918 and flew with the British during World War I. Barksdale died on August 11, 1926 over McCook Field near Dayton, Ohio when testing a Douglas O-2 observation airplane for spin characteristics.

Yale historian Leonard Woods Larabee has identified eight characteristics of the Loyalists that made them essentially conservative and loyal to the king and Britain:

It used small backed flint blades and shares characteristics with the Creswellian culture in Britain.

The sponsors announced: Nominations were invited following a MORI survey commissioned by the RSA and conducted in Britain, America, India and throughout Europe, which defined the key characteristics of Britishness as strength and determination, adaptability, modesty and a sense of humour.

There is a prominent structure at that site which is in fact called the " tower house " and has the general appearance characteristics of its counterparts in Britain and Ireland.

Observed characteristics influence his categorisation of Britain as having a closer affinity with Aries and Mars ( by which " for the most part its inhabitants are fiercer, more headstrong and bestial "), whilst Spain is reported to be more subject to Sagittarius and Jupiter, ( from which is evidenced " their independence, simplicity and love of cleanliness ").

France built a considerable fleet of these vessels, though seldom with such uniform class characteristics as seen in Britain and Germany.