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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Page x
... century to the 13th , which is given in the last chapter , may prove a useful contribution to the subject , at any rate in its lists of dated castles . The Pipe Rolls have been too little used hitherto for the general history of castle ...
... century to the 13th , which is given in the last chapter , may prove a useful contribution to the subject , at any rate in its lists of dated castles . The Pipe Rolls have been too little used hitherto for the general history of castle ...
Page xvii
... century , less attention was paid to earthworks than by our older topographical writers . Leland , in the reign of Henry VIII . , never failed to notice the " Dikes and Hilles , which were Campes of Men of Warre , " nor the " Hilles of ...
... century , less attention was paid to earthworks than by our older topographical writers . Leland , in the reign of Henry VIII . , never failed to notice the " Dikes and Hilles , which were Campes of Men of Warre , " nor the " Hilles of ...
Page xviii
... century is little to the credit of English archæology . Mr Clark's work on Mediaval Military Architecture ( published in 1884 ) , which has the merit of being one of the first to pay due attention to castle earthworks , counterbalances ...
... century is little to the credit of English archæology . Mr Clark's work on Mediaval Military Architecture ( published in 1884 ) , which has the merit of being one of the first to pay due attention to castle earthworks , counterbalances ...
Page 17
... century do the same ; ' and the confederacy of five Danish towns which existed in Mercia in the 10th century is called in contemporary records fif burga , the five boroughs.2 Burh is a noun derived from the word beorgan , to protect ...
... century do the same ; ' and the confederacy of five Danish towns which existed in Mercia in the 10th century is called in contemporary records fif burga , the five boroughs.2 Burh is a noun derived from the word beorgan , to protect ...
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... century , the word castel was introduced into our language to mark something which was evidently quite distinct from the familiar burh of ancient times . . . . Ordericus speaks of the thing and its name as something distinctly French ...
... century , the word castel was introduced into our language to mark something which was evidently quite distinct from the familiar burh of ancient times . . . . Ordericus speaks of the thing and its name as something distinctly French ...
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