It, however, may claim a high antiquity, for it formed a post during the Roman period.
But if the incumbent strata be merely Silurian or Upper Cambrian, the fundamental granite, although of high antiquity, may be posterior in date to known fossiliferous formations.
Other mountain masses might be mentioned, composed of horizontal strata of high antiquity, which contain fossil remains of animals wholly dissimilar from any now known to exist.
These allied forms of Swastika appear on prehistoric objects from mounds and Indian graves in different parts of the country and in times of high antiquity as well as among modern tribes.
In the Neolithic age, which spread itself over nearly the entire world, with many geometric forms of decoration, no form of the cross appears in times of high antiquity as a symbol or as indicating any other than an ornamental purpose.
The laws were written down in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, but they bear every evidence of high antiquity.
In the time of Rudbeck it was considered a supremely praiseworthy effort to glorify the fatherland by strengthening its claims to a high antiquity.
Sweden, physically considered, is not of as high antiquity as some countries of Europe.
Tilting or combating at the quintain is certainly a military exercise of high antiquity, and antecedent, I doubt not, to the justs and tournaments.
The exhibition of dancing, connected with leaping and tumbling, for the entertainment of princes and noblemen on occasions of festivity, is of high antiquity.
The art of slinging, or casting of stones with a sling, is of high antiquity, and probably antecedent to that of archery, though not so generally known nor so universally practised.
But as this animal was seen by Julius Caesar, and survived long after his time, its presence alone would not go far to prove the mounds to be of high antiquity.
Anac was a title of high antiquity, and seems to have been originally appropriated to persons of great strength, and stature.
They are modern, if compared with the first introduction of the worship; yet of high antiquity in respect to us.
But the misfortune is, that the names of places which seem to be original, and of high antiquity, are too often deduced by him from circumstances of later date; from events in after ages.
Whereas they were, most of them, original terms of high antiquity, imported and assumed by the people themselves, and not imposed by others.
A custom of high antiquity and of primitive simplicity prevails in the district of Spotland, in the parish of Rochdale.
Cock-fighting was a barbarous pastime of high antiquity, being practised by the Greeks and Romans.
Near the latter spot a chapel of high antiquity, dedicated to St. Julius; is now used as a barn.
At the present day editors carefully indicate their explanatory notes; but this was not the usage of high antiquity.
These also claimed a high antiquity, and at these were celebrated the same feats of strength as at Olympia.
M67) The geographical position indicates not only a high antiquity, but a state favorable to great national wealth and power.
M66) Its language, traditions, and monuments alike point to a high antiquity.
M786) The use of measures and weights was earlier than the art of writing, although the latter is of high antiquity.
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