PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND.1900 |
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... trench , the mote or mound de - cending on one side into the trench . The mote is now only 8 or 10 ft , high and the trench almost filled up , but the writer in the N.SA. says that twenty four years before he wrote , a greit quantity of ...
... trench , the mote or mound de - cending on one side into the trench . The mote is now only 8 or 10 ft , high and the trench almost filled up , but the writer in the N.SA. says that twenty four years before he wrote , a greit quantity of ...
Page 47
... trench connected with a fort . The information , however , came too late to enable me to recast this unsatisfactory subdivision . In the present revision of the maps , the distinction between Mote , a military , generally circular ...
... trench connected with a fort . The information , however , came too late to enable me to recast this unsatisfactory subdivision . In the present revision of the maps , the distinction between Mote , a military , generally circular ...
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... trench cuts off the mote , which rises 8 ft . above the trench , has a flat top , 27 by 18 ft . , and falls steeply about 20 feet to the S. and 40 to the N. , upon the field . The W. face is quarried away ( at b on the plan and section ) ...
... trench cuts off the mote , which rises 8 ft . above the trench , has a flat top , 27 by 18 ft . , and falls steeply about 20 feet to the S. and 40 to the N. , upon the field . The W. face is quarried away ( at b on the plan and section ) ...
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... trench , but it must have disappeared , and I could see nothing but a cottage and garden beside a square enclosure , fenced by a low mound , on the top of which was a ruined wall , of which the N. side , 104 ft . long , and part of the ...
... trench , but it must have disappeared , and I could see nothing but a cottage and garden beside a square enclosure , fenced by a low mound , on the top of which was a ruined wall , of which the N. side , 104 ft . long , and part of the ...
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... several other well - marked trenches , which may have been thrown up as outworks to protect the fort on that the most vulnerable side . T t M - H T to de altesther of FORTS , CAMPS , ' ETC. , OF PERTH , FORFAR , AND KINCARDINE . 51.
... several other well - marked trenches , which may have been thrown up as outworks to protect the fort on that the most vulnerable side . T t M - H T to de altesther of FORTS , CAMPS , ' ETC. , OF PERTH , FORFAR , AND KINCARDINE . 51.
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24 inches Abbey Aberdeenshire Alexander Andrew Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Archæological bearing arms fig Bible Bishop built burh Cathedral centre charter Christopher Barker Church circle circular cist copy crescents cross cups Domesday Dunbar Earl Earl of Mar earth-house earthworks edge Edinburgh Elgin Elgin Cathedral entrance Ethelfleda excavation F.S.A. Scot feet fess chequy Genevan version Ground Plan heads erased height Hill Hill Fort hole Holyrood Palace impaling Imprinted at London inch in thickness inches inches in breadth inches in diameter inches in length inches in width incised initials inscription interior James John lion LL.D Longforgan marked mote motte motte and bailey motte-and-bailey mound Museum Norman castle ornamented oval palace panel Peeblesshire pillar Pluscardin portion probably Quency rampart Recumbent Stone Robert round Royal Scotland Scottish side slab slope Society Spynie Palace St Blane's Standing Stones Stewart Terrace Towers trench vitrified