Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

Early forms of the Inuit language were spoken by the Thule people, who overran the Dorset people, who had previously occupied Arctic America, at the beginning of the second millennium.

There is general consensus that, after the collapse of the Early Dorset culture, the island remained unpopulated for several centuries.

In the Early Iron Age, Maiden Castle was generally unexceptional ; it was one of over 100 hill forts of similar size built around the same time in the area that is now Berkshire, Dorset, Hampshire, and Wiltshire.

As some hill forts were expanded, many of the smaller hill forts that had proliferated in the Early Iron Age fell out of use, as was the case in Dorset.

Dorset culture and history is divided into four periods: the Early ( which began around 500 BCE ), Middle, Late ( starting around CE 800 ), and Terminal ( CE 1000 to 1500 ) phases.

* Some Early Iron Age Sites in the Bournemouth Area, J Bernard Calkin, MA, FSA, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Vol 86, 1965

After the Saqqaq culture disappeared, the Independence II culture of northern Greenland and the Early Dorset culture of the West Greenland emerged.

There is some debate about the time frame of the transition from Saqqaq culture to Early Dorset in western Greenland.

* Purbeck Radar ~ Early Radar Development in the UK Origin of TRE in Purbeck, Dorset.

Early ( c 10th century ) dedications of churches to St George are noted in England, for example at Fordingham, Dorset, at Thetford, Southwark and Doncaster.

( 1999 ) Records of Early English Drama ; Dorset & Cornwall Toronto: U. P.

Early in 1642, Dorset joined the king at York, and pledged himself to support a troop of sixty horse.

While James Harrison of Charmouth ( Early Sinemurian stage, 196. 5-194 million years ago ), West Dorset of England was quarrying the cliffs of Black Ven ( between Charmouth and Lyme Regis ), possibly for raw material for the manufacture of cement, in 1858, he found a few fragmentary fossils of limb bones.

Early travelers in Asia sometimes describe a kind of military amok, in which soldiers facing apparently inevitable defeat suddenly burst into a frenzy of violence which so startled their enemies that it either delivered victory or at least ensured what the soldier in that culture considered an honourable death.

There is a surviving tradition of Latin philology in Western culture connecting the Roman Empire with the Early Modern period.

The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat idols carved out of the islands ' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age (" Minoan ") culture arose in Crete, to the south: these figures have been looted from burials to satisfy a thriving Cycladic antiquities market since the early 20th century.

Early Cycladic culture evolved in three phases, between ca 3300-2000 BCE, when it was increasingly swamped in the rising influence of Minoan Crete.

Pottery uncovered in these structures allowed the attribution of the monuments to the Tarxien cemetery culture of the Early Bronze Age.

Early Western travelers, whether to Persia, Turkey or China frequently remark on the absence of changes in fashion there, and observers from these other cultures comment on the unseemly pace of Western fashion, which many felt suggested an instability and lack of order in Western culture.

Early inhabitants, around 3000 BC were likely to have been connected through culture and trade to neighboring civilizations like Jiroft and Tappeh Sialk and more distantly to the Indus Valley Civilization.

Early Christianity, emerging from a Graeco-Roman culture where the most usual form of cult image was the three-dimensional statue, for long avoided these in Christian art, associating them with idolatry.

Natufian culture is commonly split into two subperiods: Early Natufian ( 12, 500 – 10, 800 BCE ) ( Christopher Delage gives a.

Early punk had an abundance of antecedents and influences, and Jon Savage has described the subculture as a " bricolage " of almost every previous youth culture that existed in the West since the Second World War " stuck together with safety pins ".

Various historians have argued that shamanism also played a role in many of the pre-Christian religions of Europe, and that shamanic elements may have survived in popular culture right through to the Early Modern period.

Early tribes were nomadic or semi-nomadic due to the arid conditions of the region as the steppe culture in Central Asia was an extension of a larger Eurasian series of horse cultures which spanned the entire spectrum of language families including the Indo-Europeans and Turko-Mongol groups.

Early modern publications, dealing with what we now call Viking culture, appeared in the 16th century, e. g. Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus ( Olaus Magnus, 1555 ), and the first edition of the 13th century Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus in 1514.

* Early Beaker culture.

* c. 1600 BC: Early Mycenaean culture: weapons, Cyclopaean walls, and chariots.

* Early Unetice culture, beginning of the Bronze Age in Central Europe.

However, modern historians tend to regard the Vandals during the transitional period ( from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages ) as perpetuators, not destroyers, of Roman culture.

Bronze Age to Early Iron Age Mesopotamian culture is sometimes summarized as " Assyro-Babylonian ", because of the close cultural interdependence of the two political centers.

Deforestation continued to the more remote areas as a warmer climate allowed the cultivation even of upland areas. alt = Map of Wales showing the names of Celtic British tribes in their territoriesBy 4000 BP people had begun to bury, or cremate their dead in individual cists, beneath a mound of earth known as a round barrow ; sometimes with a distinctive style of finely decorated pottery – like those at Llanharry ( discovered 1929 ) and at Llandaff ( 1991 ) – that gave rise to the Early Bronze Age being described as Beaker culture.

Webley & J. Harvey in 1962 revealing the disarticulated remains ( i. e. not complete skeletons ) of six adults and two children, dated to the Early Bronze Age or Beaker culture.

Early in their culture, the Pipil became one of the few Mesoamerican indigenous groups to abolish human sacrifice.

Early examples of the Doric order include the temples at Paestum in southern Italy, a region called Magna Graecia, which was settled by Greek colonists and retained a strongly Hellenic culture.

There were many diverse Christian communities with wildly different Christologies, eschatologies, soteriologies, and cosmologies that existed alongside the " Early Church " which is itself a projected concept to indicate which communities were " proto-orthodox ," in that their views would become dominate.

Early rowing machines are known to have existed from the mid 1800s, a US patent being issued to WB Curtis in 1872 for a particular hydraulic based damper design.

Early versions of the organ, fiddle ( or vielle ), and trombone ( called the sackbut ) existed.

Similar facilities existed on earlier system such as Multics and CTSS Early versions talk did not separate text from each user.

The traces of buildings, walls and a road from this time period prove that life existed and continued to do so during the Early Hellenic era ( 3000 – 2000 BC ).

Early versions of dictionaries produced in Burns ' wake in the 19th century had titles such as " A Dictionary of the Scotch Dialect of the Lowlands " and modern place names now written as " Scots " e. g., Scotstarvit and Scotscalder existed in previous incarnations as " Scotch ".

Not all reefs in the past were formed by corals: those in the Early Cambrian ( 542 – 513 Ma ) resulted from calcareous algae and archaeocyathids ( small animals with conical shape, probably related to sponges ) and in the Late Cretaceous ( 100 – 65 Ma ), when there also existed reefs formed by a group of bivalves called rudists ; one of the valves formed the main conical structure and the other, much smaller valve acted as a cap.

Pakicetids or Pakicetidae ( meaning Pakistani whales ) are a carnivorous mammal family of the suborder Archaeoceti which lived during the Early Eocene to Middle Eocene ( 55. 8 mya — 40. 4 mya ) in Pakistan and existed for approximately.

In the European Early Middle Ages, law, standardization, and the power of the after the decline of Rome, but regulation existed in the form of norms, customs, and privileges ; this regulation was aided by the unified Christian identity and a sense of honor in regard to contracts.

Early on, Trujillo determined that the financial affairs of the Dominican Republic needed to be put in order, and that included the termination of the role of the United States as the administrator of Dominican customs-a situation which had existed since 1905-and finances — a situation that had existed since 1924.

Early in the history of humans, the largest and most powerful realm was centered on the northern islands of Enlad and Éa, although this realm did not rule all of Earthsea, and it is unclear whether other realms existed.

Early ferries also existed across the Mersey further upstream, at Ince and at Runcorn.

A Celtic stone carved with cup and rings / channels, known as the Runic Cross ( although there are neither runes on it, nor any evidence that it was a cross shaft ) was found on the slopes of the Leithen valley suggesting that a church existed during the Early Middle Ages.

Early Iron age settlement existed in the Rugby area, and a few miles outside what is now Rugby, existed a Roman settlement known as Tripontium.

Early versions of Internet Explorer ( up to Version 5 ) were also Win32s compatible, although these also existed in 16-bit format. Generally, for a 32-bit application to be compatible with Win32s, it had to not use more than 16MB of memory or any extended features such as DirectX.

In the Early Church, the bishop administered all three sacraments of initiation ( Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist ), assisted by the priests and deacons and, where they existed, by deaconesses for women's Baptism.

The family is documented to exist from the Early Eocene onwards ; by the Late Eocene or earlier, two families are known to have existed, the extant Coliidae and the longer-billed prehistorically extinct Sandcoleidae.

The herrerasaurs existed during the early late Triassic ( Late Carnian to Early Norian ).

There also existed a Late Pliocene / Early Pleistocene species known from Ibiza, Puffinus nestori, which may have been the direct ancestor of the Mediterranean Shearwater ( Heidrich et al.

It can be thus understood why during Early Christian times there existed groups of Godfearers, who were gentiles who shared religious ideas with Jews, to one degree or another, but were afraid to circumcise, and were not recognized as Jews.

Firby is from the Old English name Fredebi ( its Middle English spelling was normative Fritheby, and Frethby, since Normanised into Early Modern English as Firby, although numerous spellings ( Furby, Furbee, Ferby, Furbay, Farby, and Freeby ) have existed since Modern English, and especially through Americanisation.