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- proper noun A
village andcivil parish in West Sussex, England.
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Examples
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"The flint tools from Happisburgh are relatively crude compared with those from Boxgrove, but they are still effective," said Stringer.
First humans arrived in Britain 250,000 years earlier than thought 2010
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More sophisticated stone, antler and bone tools were found in the 1990s in Boxgrove, Sussex, which are believed to be half a million years old.
First humans arrived in Britain 250,000 years earlier than thought 2010
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That early man hunted big game is supported by the recent discovery of a fossilized rhinoceros shoulder blade with a projectile wound at Boxgrove, England, dated to 500,000 years ago.
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Boxgrove church is an object of pilgrimage for antiquaries and architects, the vaulting being peculiarly interesting.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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Boxgrove is still very beautiful, as Mr. Griggs 'drawings prove.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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The Abbey of Lessay had transmarine jurisdiction and the right of presentation to the Priory of Boxgrove and other endowments in the diocese of Chichester.
Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser
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We stopped at Boxgrove, too, a church adored by architects; and as we went our way to Goodwood the sea was a torn sheet of silver seen behind great downs which the afternoon sun was gilding.
Set in Silver 1901
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This nave is one of those buildings which, in the infancy of vaulting, their builders found it convenient to vault with one bay of vaulting over two bays of arcade, as in the choir of Boxgrove in the next century.
Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857
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It is something like Boxgrove, something like some German churches, but not exactly.
Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857
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There is a good bill of fare provided in the shape of Lectures on the Cathedral, by Professor Willis; excursions to Boxgrove Priory,
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