The Early Norman Castles of the British IslesJ. Murray, 1912 - 408 pages |
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... stand alone , without any accompany- ing court . Excavation or documentary evidence can alone decide in these cases , though the presence of 1 Some writers give the name of moot - hill to places in Yorkshire and elsewhere where the ...
... stand alone , without any accompany- ing court . Excavation or documentary evidence can alone decide in these cases , though the presence of 1 Some writers give the name of moot - hill to places in Yorkshire and elsewhere where the ...
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... stands ; for when it was attacked by Penda in 633 , he found the situation so strong that it was impossible to storm it , and it was only by heaping up wood on the most accessible side that he was able to set fire to the wooden stockade ...
... stands ; for when it was attacked by Penda in 633 , he found the situation so strong that it was impossible to storm it , and it was only by heaping up wood on the most accessible side that he was able to set fire to the wooden stockade ...
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... stands the courthouse of the manor of Bromborough . But this manor was given by the Earl of Chester to the monks of St The tower called Cæsar's Tower is really a mural tower of the 13th century . E. W. Cox , " Chester Castle , " in ...
... stands the courthouse of the manor of Bromborough . But this manor was given by the Earl of Chester to the monks of St The tower called Cæsar's Tower is really a mural tower of the 13th century . E. W. Cox , " Chester Castle , " in ...
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... stands a mile and a half from the town on the southern side of the river Sowe , while we are expressly told by Florence that Ethelfleda's borough was on the northern side , as the town is now . Stafford was a Domesday 1 " Arcem quam in ...
... stands a mile and a half from the town on the southern side of the river Sowe , while we are expressly told by Florence that Ethelfleda's borough was on the northern side , as the town is now . Stafford was a Domesday 1 " Arcem quam in ...
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... stands at the The burh stands at the top of a hill , commanding the junction of two great Roman roads , the Watling Street from Chester to Manchester , and the branch which it sends forth to Kinderton on the east . As a very misleading ...
... stands at the The burh stands at the top of a hill , commanding the junction of two great Roman roads , the Watling Street from Chester to Manchester , and the branch which it sends forth to Kinderton on the east . As a very misleading ...
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12th century acres ancient Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Annals appears Arch borough bretasche Brut building built Burghal Hidage burgus burh called camp Cardigan castelli castellum castrum certainly chapel charter Chester church Close Rolls Colchester Conquest Corfe Danes Danish defended ditch Domesday Book doubt Earl early Norman earthworks Edward Edward the Elder enclosed enclosure England English Ethelfleda evidence existence feet feudal Fitz fortifications Fulk Nerra Giraldus Gwynedd Henry II Henry II.'s hillock History houses III.'s reign Journ king land manor masonry mediæval mentioned moated Montgomerie mote motte and bailey motte-and-bailey motte-castle mound mural towers Norman castle Norwich Ordericus original Orpen outer Pipe Rolls private castle probably Quatford remains remarks Risen river Robert Rochester Roger Roman round ruins Saxon says Scotland shows side Stafford stands stockade stone castle stone keep town trace turris Wales wall ward Welsh William wooden castle word writer