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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Dr Round was the first to attack ( in the Quarterly Review , 1894 ) the assertion of the late Mr G. T. Clark that the moated mound was a Saxon castle . Mr George Neilson continued the same line of argument in his illuminating paper on ...
Dr Round was the first to attack ( in the Quarterly Review , 1894 ) the assertion of the late Mr G. T. Clark that the moated mound was a Saxon castle . Mr George Neilson continued the same line of argument in his illuminating paper on ...
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... to Mr W. St John Hope ( late Assistant Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries ) , for information on many difficult points ; to Mr Harold Sands , F.S.A. , whose readiness to lay his great stores of knowledge at my disposal has been ...
... to Mr W. St John Hope ( late Assistant Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries ) , for information on many difficult points ; to Mr Harold Sands , F.S.A. , whose readiness to lay his great stores of knowledge at my disposal has been ...
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... to Mr W. St John Hope ( late Assistant Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries ) , for information on many difficult points ; to Mr Harold Sands , F.S.A. , whose readiness to lay his great stores of knowledge at my disposal has been ...
... to Mr W. St John Hope ( late Assistant Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries ) , for information on many difficult points ; to Mr Harold Sands , F.S.A. , whose readiness to lay his great stores of knowledge at my disposal has been ...
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We need not be surprised to find Camden doing this , as he wrote before the dawn of scientific observation ; but that such methods should have been carried on until late in the 19th century is little to the credit of English archæology ...
We need not be surprised to find Camden doing this , as he wrote before the dawn of scientific observation ; but that such methods should have been carried on until late in the 19th century is little to the credit of English archæology ...
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We refer of course to the theory of the late Mr G. T. Clark , who contended in his 1 Schmid , 138. " Butan porte " is the Saxon expression , port being another word for town ; see Schmid , 643 . 3 2 Schmid , Edgar III . , 5 ; Ethelred ...
We refer of course to the theory of the late Mr G. T. Clark , who contended in his 1 Schmid , 138. " Butan porte " is the Saxon expression , port being another word for town ; see Schmid , 643 . 3 2 Schmid , Edgar III . , 5 ; Ethelred ...
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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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