The English CastleC. Scribner's sons, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... Edward , Alfred's son and the rightful heir to the throne of Wessex , marched with an army to Badbury and took up a position in the old hill - fort . This appears to have been the first occasion upon which a Saxon army had attempted to ...
... Edward , Alfred's son and the rightful heir to the throne of Wessex , marched with an army to Badbury and took up a position in the old hill - fort . This appears to have been the first occasion upon which a Saxon army had attempted to ...
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... Edward's borough at Witham , and possibly excavation will show that many more supposedly Saxon earthworks are simply ancient sites re - fortified , and that as earthwork engineers the Saxons were practically negligible . ) The original ...
... Edward's borough at Witham , and possibly excavation will show that many more supposedly Saxon earthworks are simply ancient sites re - fortified , and that as earthwork engineers the Saxons were practically negligible . ) The original ...
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... Edward- Edward I to be - who fell upon the village one August dawn and sent them scampering - nightshirt or nothing - back to the shelter of their castle walls , short of many of their number and almost lacking their leader who had to ...
... Edward- Edward I to be - who fell upon the village one August dawn and sent them scampering - nightshirt or nothing - back to the shelter of their castle walls , short of many of their number and almost lacking their leader who had to ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
Copyright | |
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