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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... 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 that merit by enunciating as a fact ...
... 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 that merit by enunciating as a fact ...
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... English ? At York , a prehistoric crouching skeleton was found by Messrs Benson and Platnauer when excavating the castle hill in 1903 , 4 feet 6 inches below the level of the ground . The motte at York appears to have been raised after ...
... English ? At York , a prehistoric crouching skeleton was found by Messrs Benson and Platnauer when excavating the castle hill in 1903 , 4 feet 6 inches below the level of the ground . The motte at York appears to have been raised after ...
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... English state would survive the desolating flood of pagan barbarism which had already overwhelmed the sister kingdoms of the 1 See Wright , History of Domestic Manners , p . 13 . 2 The Danish fortress of Nottingham is mentioned by the ...
... English state would survive the desolating flood of pagan barbarism which had already overwhelmed the sister kingdoms of the 1 See Wright , History of Domestic Manners , p . 13 . 2 The Danish fortress of Nottingham is mentioned by the ...
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... English kingdom on so sound a basis that when , in later centuries , it succes- sively became the prey of the Dane and the Norman , the English polity survived both conquests . The wisdom , energy , and steadfastness of King Alfred and ...
... English kingdom on so sound a basis that when , in later centuries , it succes- sively became the prey of the Dane and the Norman , the English polity survived both conquests . The wisdom , energy , and steadfastness of King Alfred and ...
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... English hands ; that is , not only the present Oxfordshire and Middlesex , but part of Herts , 5 1 Anglo - Saxon Chronicle , 878 , 893 , 896. According to Henry of Huntingdon , the work on the Lea was the splitting of that river into ...
... English hands ; that is , not only the present Oxfordshire and Middlesex , but part of Herts , 5 1 Anglo - Saxon Chronicle , 878 , 893 , 896. According to Henry of Huntingdon , the work on the Lea was the splitting of that river into ...
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