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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... mound was a Saxon castle . Mr George Neilson continued the same line of argument in his illuminating paper on " The Motes in Norman Scotland " ( Scottish Review , vol . xxxii . , 1898 ) . All that the writer claims is to have carried ...
... mound was a Saxon castle . Mr George Neilson continued the same line of argument in his illuminating paper on " The Motes in Norman Scotland " ( Scottish Review , vol . xxxii . , 1898 ) . All that the writer claims is to have carried ...
Page ix
... mounds , and of the stone castles built upon many of them , but may also furnish material to the historian who seeks to trace the progress of the Norman occupation . Students of the architecture of castles are aware that this subject ...
... mounds , and of the stone castles built upon many of them , but may also furnish material to the historian who seeks to trace the progress of the Norman occupation . Students of the architecture of castles are aware that this subject ...
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... mound - and - court type were the work of the Anglo- Saxons , the question resolves itself into another , namely , Did the Anglo - Saxons build castles ? As far as we know , they did not ; and although to prove a negative we can only ...
... mound - and - court type were the work of the Anglo- Saxons , the question resolves itself into another , namely , Did the Anglo - Saxons build castles ? As far as we know , they did not ; and although to prove a negative we can only ...
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... mound of class (. 1 Schmid , 138. " Butan porte " is the Saxon expression , port being another word for town ; see Schmid , 643 . 2 Schmid , Edgar III . , 5 ; Ethelred II . , 6 . * Edgar IV . , 2 . * The writer was first led to doubt the ...
... mound of class (. 1 Schmid , 138. " Butan porte " is the Saxon expression , port being another word for town ; see Schmid , 643 . 2 Schmid , Edgar III . , 5 ; Ethelred II . , 6 . * Edgar IV . , 2 . * The writer was first led to doubt the ...
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Ella S. Armitage. Mediæval Military Architecture1 that the moated mound of class ( e ) , which we have described in ... mounds at Tamworth , Warwick , and elsewhere were the work of Ethelfleda , and that other mounds were the work ...
Ella S. Armitage. Mediæval Military Architecture1 that the moated mound of class ( e ) , which we have described in ... mounds at Tamworth , Warwick , and elsewhere were the work of Ethelfleda , and that other mounds were the work ...
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