Example sentences of "to the fourth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were other polled cattle in Ireland throughout the ages : the ‘ maol ’ ( hornless ) types are referred to in traditional cattle-raiding stories which in some cases can be traced back to the fourth century , and remains of polled cattle have been found ( along with small , horned Kerry types ) at archaeological sites dating back three to four thousand years . |
| 2 | The remaining evidence is all later than this , ranging from late classical law ( Ulpian ) to the fourth century , the early post-classical period of the Epitome of Ulpian and the sententiae of Paul . |
| 3 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 4 | Among the most important pieces raised over the summer were two heads , one bearded and probably dating to the fourth century BC , the other with hellenistic features that place it either in the second century BC as a Greek original or several centuries later as a Roman copy . |
| 5 | A modern Roman Catholic authority recounts a story which brings them up to the fourth century — the time of Constantine . |
| 6 | Coloured eggs date back to the fourth century when it was forbidden to eat eggs during Lent ( the days leading up to Easter ) . |
| 7 | All the associated grave goods belonged to the fourth century , the cemetery itself overlying earlier field boundaries and enclosures . |
| 8 | The date of the Withington and Newton St. Loe mosaics remains unclear , but , on stylistic grounds the author would assign them also to the fourth century ( pace Smith 1969 , 100 ) : they are probably slightly later than the above pavements ( section 4.3 ) but almost certainly are before 340 . |
| 9 | The circular arrangement above the Hare was assigned , originally , to the late-third century ( Neal 1981 , no. 25 ) , but this dating has been amended , and the pavement now assigned to the fourth century ( perhaps as late as the second quarter of the fourth century : Cirencester Excavations III , forthcoming ) . |
| 10 | Both of the former two mosaics were attributed to the fourth century ( entirely on stylistic grounds ) , and by virtue of its association with the saltire mosaic ( pI . |
| 11 | This mosaic is also datable to the fourth century . |
| 12 | Both of these designs can be dated to the fourth century , ( Morley-Hewitt 1969 , 2 ) and so might be contemporary with the northern sequence ( see section 3.2 pp. 85-86 ) . |
| 13 | Excavations carried out recently on behalf of the Cheltenham Museum have revealed structures from the first to the fourth centuries , an irregular street pattern and a ditch with fourth-century coins in the lower filling which may have been part of a defence system . |