The Early Norman Castles of the British IslesSome portions of this book have already appeared in print. The rest of the work is entirely new. No serious attempt had been made to ascertain the exact nature of Saxon and Danish fortifications by a comparison of the existing remains with the historical records which have come down to us, until the publication of Mr Allcroft's valuable book on Earthwork of England. The chapters on Saxon and Danish earthworks in the present volume were written before the appearance of his book, though the results arrived at are only slightly different. |
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General Pitt - Rivers applied the lessons . he had thus learned to the excavation of camps and dykes , and his labours opened a new era in that branch of research . By accumulating an immense body of observations , and by recording ...
General Pitt - Rivers applied the lessons . he had thus learned to the excavation of camps and dykes , and his labours opened a new era in that branch of research . By accumulating an immense body of observations , and by recording ...
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We may be quite sure that a camp which contains an area of 60 or 80 acres was not constructed for the same purpose as one which only contains an area of three . We are not concerned here , however , with the 1 In the paper on Earthworks ...
We may be quite sure that a camp which contains an area of 60 or 80 acres was not constructed for the same purpose as one which only contains an area of three . We are not concerned here , however , with the 1 In the paper on Earthworks ...
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Such generalisations are for the most part premature ; and although some advance is being made in this direction , it is still impossible to decide without excavation whether a camp of class ( a ) or ( 6 ) belongs to the Stone Age ...
Such generalisations are for the most part premature ; and although some advance is being made in this direction , it is still impossible to decide without excavation whether a camp of class ( a ) or ( 6 ) belongs to the Stone Age ...
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The area covered by these fortifications . is much more uniform ; one of the features contrasting them most strongly with the great prehistoric " camps of southern England is their comparatively ...
The area covered by these fortifications . is much more uniform ; one of the features contrasting them most strongly with the great prehistoric " camps of southern England is their comparatively ...
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It differs entirely from the great camps which belong to the tribal period . It was evidently not designed to accommodate a mass of people with their flocks and herds . It is small in area , and its citadel , as a rule , is very small ...
It differs entirely from the great camps which belong to the tribal period . It was evidently not designed to accommodate a mass of people with their flocks and herds . It is small in area , and its citadel , as a rule , is very small ...
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| Title | The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles |
| Author | Ella S. Armitage |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1912 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 Dec 2012 |
| ISBN | 1511546832, 9781511546836 |
| Length | 408 pages |
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