Sentence examples for settlement stretching from inspiring English sources
It's a hunch that archaeologists have had for decades, but which was only recently confirmed in astonishing detail by an aerial laser survey, which cut through the foliage for the first time a few years ago to reveal the grid of a vast urban settlement stretching for miles around the moated compounds.
The county has a long history of human settlement stretching back to the Neolithic era.
Warburton has a history of settlement stretching back to the 11th century, with the possibility of earlier habitation.
As well as the cemeteries, the excavations in the 1990s confirmed the presence of a linear settlement, stretching along the Fosse Way for perhaps a kilometre, comprising cobbled streets, wooden and stone workshops and houses (some with two storeys) containing hearths and ovens, industrial areas, and a stone-lined well.
Pottery fragments found on the slopes of this mound, or tell, show that continuous settlement stretches back at least 7500 years.
The other major urban area is that of southern Upper Silesia, a conurbation of mining and industrial settlements stretching some 30 miles (48 km) from Dąbrowa Górnicza to Gliwice.
It also inherited its piece of the Soviet Union's paternalistic economy, in towns and settlements stretching from the Arctic gas fields to those along the maze of pipelines leading south.
The area has a history of pre-European-contact settlements stretching from at least 800 B.C. to the 1500s A.D. Archaeological surveys revealed large, ancient mounds in the valley.
Later, agricultural settlements stretched north and south from Salt Lake City, planting a "Mormon corridor" that still runs from Idaho to Mexico.
This cave-site, located in the Sapna Valley, has yielded a settlement sequence stretching from the Middle Palaeolithic up to the Epipalaeolithic period.
As a tribute to the first Walser settlers, Alpine walkers in the 1980s set up the Walserweg ('Walser way') – a series of hiking trails linking the old settlements, and stretching from the Valais to the Austrian-German border, where the Walser migration ended.
