Archaeologia CambrensisW. Pickering, 1912 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 60
Page 2
... century . The cushions for the head are two , the under one a broad rectangle , shaped like a wedge , much deeper at the top than the bottom , the upper a square cushion placed diagonally . before mentioned , the features are broken ...
... century . The cushions for the head are two , the under one a broad rectangle , shaped like a wedge , much deeper at the top than the bottom , the upper a square cushion placed diagonally . before mentioned , the features are broken ...
Page 6
... century character , and no doubt represents an ecclesi- astic who had undertaken the pilgrimage to Compostella . Whether he was a native of Haverfordwest , or had started from some other place to make a second pil- grimage to the shrine ...
... century character , and no doubt represents an ecclesi- astic who had undertaken the pilgrimage to Compostella . Whether he was a native of Haverfordwest , or had started from some other place to make a second pil- grimage to the shrine ...
Page 19
... century . There is a fine tomb with effigy of Bishop John Morgan ( 1504 ) in St. David's Cathedral . 2 Previous mention : Fenton , p . 449 ; Arch . Camb . , 1906 , p . 81 ; Church Book of St. Mary's , Tenby , p . 77 ; Lord's Ichnography ...
... century . There is a fine tomb with effigy of Bishop John Morgan ( 1504 ) in St. David's Cathedral . 2 Previous mention : Fenton , p . 449 ; Arch . Camb . , 1906 , p . 81 ; Church Book of St. Mary's , Tenby , p . 77 ; Lord's Ichnography ...
Page 33
... century house of the hall type , and later in the Elizabethan period into the manor house . This traditional plan is one which has the simplest arrangement of rooms pos- sible , and comprises the three usual apartments - the hall ...
... century house of the hall type , and later in the Elizabethan period into the manor house . This traditional plan is one which has the simplest arrangement of rooms pos- sible , and comprises the three usual apartments - the hall ...
Page 36
... century . The solar was probably lighted by windows in the east wall as well , but there are now no traces indi- cative of such openings . The arrow slits commanding both the entrances are clearly discernible . In some of the earlier ...
... century . The solar was probably lighted by windows in the east wall as well , but there are now no traces indi- cative of such openings . The arrow slits commanding both the entrances are clearly discernible . In some of the earlier ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abergele ancient anno Antiquaries Arch Archæological Asaph Bettws y Coed Boyd Dawkins Britain British Bronze Age burial Bwlch Camb camp Canon Cardiff Cardigan Cardiganshire Carmarthenshire Carnarvon century chapel Chester Church circle cist clay computo Conway County Deganwy denariis denariis solutis Denbigh Denbighshire diameter Dissard district ditch Dyserth Dyserth Castle Edward effigy entrance Evans excavated exitibus feet flint Flintshire floor fragments Gilar Gors Goch ground Gruffydd Harold Hughes hill House Hughes huius hut-circles ibidem Ieuan iiijd inches inscription interesting John Jones Kermerdyn King Llandyssul Llanfairfechan Llangeler Llywelyn Lord Monmouth Montgomeryshire monuments mound Museum Neolithic nuper Owen parish Pembrokeshire Penmaenmawr Plas Iolyn portion pottery Prætorium prehistoric present probably Professor Regis remains Rhuddlan Rhys Robert Roman Road side slabs stone Swansea Tenby thick Thomas Price tower tumuli tumulus urns Vicarage wall Welsh William Wynne Yspytty
Popular passages
Page 356 - Wales, containing the most wonderful and most fearful accidents of the great overflowing of waters in the saide Countye, Drowning infinite numbers of Cattell of all kinds, as Sheepe, Oxen, Kine, and Horses, with others, together with the losse of many men, women and children and the submersion of XXVI. Parishes in January, 1607 (rude woodcut follows). London Printed for WW, and are to be solde in Paul's Churchyarde, at the signe of the Greyhound.
Page 342 - ... Charters of Burghs and illustrative Extracts from contemporary local Records will be given, as far as may be considered desirable. The Extracts from the Records of each Burgh will, as far as the Committee consider expedient, be issued separately, and without adhering to any prescribed order.
Page 378 - I have a kindness for my Lord Portland, which he has deserved of me by long and faithful services ; but I should not have given him these lands if I had imagined the House of Commons could have been concerned. I will therefore recall the grant, and find some other way of shewing my favour to him.
Page 325 - For many a petty king ere Arthur came Ruled in this isle, and ever waging war Each upon other, wasted all the land ; And still from time to time the heathen host Swarm'd overseas, and harried what was left. And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more, But man was less and less, till Arthur came.
Page 398 - The first storey was on the surface of the ground, where were cellars and granaries, and great boxes, tuns, casks, and other domestic utensils. In the storey above were the dwelling and common living rooms of the residents, in which were the larders, the rooms of the bakers and butlers, and the great chamber in which the lord and his wife slept. Adjoining this was a private room, the dormitory of the waiting maids and children. In the inner part of the great chamber was a certain private room, where...
Page 406 - By EDWARD GREENLY, FGS ~|)AMSAY'S view of the Strait as a glacial furrow was in the main JAi accepted ; but it was shown, from the general glacial phenomena and from soundings, that the middle reach of the Strait cannot be explained in that way. Evidence was adduced to show that this reach was excavated by glacial waters during the recession of the ice at a time when the mutual relations of the ice of the mountain-land and of the sea-basin admitted of the accumulation of a temporary lake.
Page 66 - But, as his plans were not matured, he had no fleet. The skill and resolution of the general accomplished the passage. With some picked men of the auxiliaries, disencumbered of all baggage, who knew the shallows and had that national experience in swimming which enables the Britons to take care not only of themselves but of their arms and horses, he delivered so unexpected an attack that the astonished enemy who were looking for a fleet, a naval armament, and an assault by sea, thought that to such...
Page 398 - In the inner part of the great chamber was a certain private room, where at early dawn or in the evening or during sickness or at time of blood-letting, or for warming the maids and weaned children, they used to have a fire. . . . In the upper storey of the house were garret rooms, in which on the one side the sons (when they wished it), on the other side the daughters (because they were obliged), of the lord of the house used to sleep. In this storey also the watchmen and the servants appointed...
Page 355 - The Excursion Down the Wye, edition of 1799, where he says: — "I printed in the year 1795 an account of some of the writers on the river Wye, which I intended prefacing with notices of
Page 360 - Street, the spot formerly having been denoted by a small flat slab, so that a stranger unaided would have looked in vain to find it, until some few years ago (and to their praise be it said) some of Monmouth 's sons erected over their deceased worthy a more becoming tomb of Forest stone.