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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... PERIOD • 351 A. PRIMITIVE FOLK - MOOTS APPENDICES • B. WATLING STREET AND THE DANELAGH C. THE MILITARY ORIGIN OF THE BOROUGHS D. THE WORDS " CASTRUM " AND 66 E. THE BURGHAL HIDAGE F. THELWALL • G. THE WORD 66 BRETASCHE " H. THE WORD ...
... PERIOD • 351 A. PRIMITIVE FOLK - MOOTS APPENDICES • B. WATLING STREET AND THE DANELAGH C. THE MILITARY ORIGIN OF THE BOROUGHS D. THE WORDS " CASTRUM " AND 66 E. THE BURGHAL HIDAGE F. THELWALL • G. THE WORD 66 BRETASCHE " H. THE WORD ...
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... period , they were at any rate raised to meet similar sets of circumstances . 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 ...
... period , they were at any rate raised to meet similar sets of circumstances . 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 ...
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... 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 indeed . Dr Sophus Müller , the eminent Danish archæologist , when ...
... 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 indeed . Dr Sophus Müller , the eminent Danish archæologist , when ...
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... period of the Conquest and for a long time after his first settlement here . But it will at once occur to an objector that there have been other invaders of Britain before the Normans , 1 See Chapter VII . and it may be asked why these ...
... period of the Conquest and for a long time after his first settlement here . But it will at once occur to an objector that there have been other invaders of Britain before the Normans , 1 See Chapter VII . and it may be asked why these ...
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... period , after castles had arisen in Normandy . Who among Saxon nobles was more likely to possess a castle than the powerful Earl Godwin , and his independent sons ? Yet when Godwin left the court of Edward the Confessor , because he ...
... period , after castles had arisen in Normandy . Who among Saxon nobles was more likely to possess a castle than the powerful Earl Godwin , and his independent sons ? Yet when Godwin left the court of Edward the Confessor , because he ...
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