The Early Norman Castles of the British IslesJohn Murray, 1912 - 408 pages Some 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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... Mediæval Military Architecture ( published in 1884 ) , which has the merit of being one of the first to pay due attention to castle earthworks , counterbalances that merit by enunciating as a fact a mere guess of his own , which , as we ...
... Mediæval Military Architecture ( published in 1884 ) , which has the merit of being one of the first to pay due attention to castle earthworks , counterbalances that merit by enunciating as a fact a mere guess of his own , which , as we ...
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... Mediæval Military Architecture , that he showed the perfect correspondence in plan of these earthen and timber structures with the stone castles which immediately succeeded them , so that it was only necessary to add a stone tower and ...
... Mediæval Military Architecture , that he showed the perfect correspondence in plan of these earthen and timber structures with the stone castles which immediately succeeded them , so that it was only necessary to add a stone tower and ...
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... mediæval Latin is called a burgus , that is a fortified town , and that our word borough is lawfully descended from it . It would not have been necessary to spend so much time on the history of the word burh if this unfortunate word had ...
... mediæval Latin is called a burgus , that is a fortified town , and that our word borough is lawfully descended from it . It would not have been necessary to spend so much time on the history of the word burh if this unfortunate word had ...
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Ella S. Armitage. Mediæval Military Architecture1 that the moated mound of class ( e ) , which we have described in our first chapter , was what the Anglo - Saxons called a burh . In other words , he maintained that the burhs were Saxon ...
Ella S. Armitage. Mediæval Military Architecture1 that the moated mound of class ( e ) , which we have described in our first chapter , was what the Anglo - Saxons called a burh . In other words , he maintained that the burhs were Saxon ...
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... of the thirty boroughs built. 1 Codex Diplomaticus , i . , 138 . 2 History of Rochester , 1772 , p . 21 . 3 Stevenson's edition of Asser , 331. See Appendix D. * Asser , c . xlix . 916 Unidentified . 916 No motte ; a mediæval castle.
... of the thirty boroughs built. 1 Codex Diplomaticus , i . , 138 . 2 History of Rochester , 1772 , p . 21 . 3 Stevenson's edition of Asser , 331. See Appendix D. * Asser , c . xlix . 916 Unidentified . 916 No motte ; a mediæval castle.
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