Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 21Kent Archaeological Society., 1895 |
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... shews that these animals had entered the pits to feed on the carrion , and when once in were unable to return . LUTON FORT , NEAR CHATHAM . PRE - ROMAN PERIOD . - The workmen engaged in making the glacis outside the fort in the Luton ...
... shews that these animals had entered the pits to feed on the carrion , and when once in were unable to return . LUTON FORT , NEAR CHATHAM . PRE - ROMAN PERIOD . - The workmen engaged in making the glacis outside the fort in the Luton ...
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... shews that it cuts into the north angle of the semicircular bastion of the Castle enclosure . The site of its onward course would therefore be the path between the keep and the southern curtain wall . In line with this path Mr. J. C. ...
... shews that it cuts into the north angle of the semicircular bastion of the Castle enclosure . The site of its onward course would therefore be the path between the keep and the southern curtain wall . In line with this path Mr. J. C. ...
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... shews the two thicknesses of wall , but also a third addition , which is probably of the thirteenth century . From this interesting section the wall and chalk cliff upon which it stood have succumbed to the ravages of time , for there ...
... shews the two thicknesses of wall , but also a third addition , which is probably of the thirteenth century . From this interesting section the wall and chalk cliff upon which it stood have succumbed to the ravages of time , for there ...
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... shews that we need not look for a castle in Rochester in Saxon times in order to explain why the city was often spoken of as a castrum or castellum . There was no castle in Rochester before Nor- man times . The city was the castellum ...
... shews that we need not look for a castle in Rochester in Saxon times in order to explain why the city was often spoken of as a castrum or castellum . There was no castle in Rochester before Nor- man times . The city was the castellum ...
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... shews how the record was influenced here and there by the for- feiture of Odo's estates . It is probable that the words " on which the castle [ now ] stands " did not form part of the Commissioners ' notes , and that they were added at ...
... shews how the record was influenced here and there by the for- feiture of Odo's estates . It is probable that the words " on which the castle [ now ] stands " did not form part of the Commissioners ' notes , and that they were added at ...
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Page 70 - ... the vertue of this water, which now remayneth playne water, as all other waters do : so that the kyng moved of necessitie, could no lesse do then deface the shryne that was author of so much ydolatry. Whether the doyng thereof hath bene the undoyng of the canonised saint, or not, I cannot tell. But this is true, that his bones are spred amongest the bones of so many dead men, that without some greate miracle they wyll not be found agayne.
Page 244 - Had sooth'd the breast with burning anguish torn ; The voice of seas, the winds that rouse the deep, Far-sounding floods that tear the mountain's steep ; Each wild and melancholy blast that raves Round these dim towers, and smites the beating waves — This...