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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... hill - fort . It was a town , a place 1 See Skeat's Dictionary , " Timber . " 2 Excavation has recently shown that many of the great hill - forts were permanently inhabited , and it is now considered improbable that they were originally ...
... hill - fort . It was a town , a place 1 See Skeat's Dictionary , " Timber . " 2 Excavation has recently shown that many of the great hill - forts were permanently inhabited , and it is now considered improbable that they were originally ...
Page 33
... Hills . Here the top of a small hill has been encircled with a ditch ; but the ditch is so narrow that it does not suggest a defensive work , and it is remote from any Roman road or navigable river . SCERGEAT has not yet been identified ...
... Hills . Here the top of a small hill has been encircled with a ditch ; but the ditch is so narrow that it does not suggest a defensive work , and it is remote from any Roman road or navigable river . SCERGEAT has not yet been identified ...
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... Hill . Tradition says that the Parliamentary forces used it for their guns in 1646. Eyton's Shropshire , i . , 132 . 3 " Bricge cum exercitu pene totius Angliæ obsedit , machinas quoque ibi construere et castellum firmare præcepit ...
... Hill . Tradition says that the Parliamentary forces used it for their guns in 1646. Eyton's Shropshire , i . , 132 . 3 " Bricge cum exercitu pene totius Angliæ obsedit , machinas quoque ibi construere et castellum firmare præcepit ...
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... hill , commanding the junction of two great Roman roads , the Watling Street from Chester to Manchester , and the branch which it sends forth to Kinderton on the east . As a very misleading plan of this work has been published in the ...
... hill , commanding the junction of two great Roman roads , the Watling Street from Chester to Manchester , and the branch which it sends forth to Kinderton on the east . As a very misleading plan of this work has been published in the ...
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... hill , and belongs most certainly to the Edwardian period of the masonry buildings . " WARWICK Castle has a motte which has been confidently attributed to Ethelfleda , only because Dugdale copied the assertion of Thomas Rous , a very ...
... hill , and belongs most certainly to the Edwardian period of the masonry buildings . " WARWICK Castle has a motte which has been confidently attributed to Ethelfleda , only because Dugdale copied the assertion of Thomas Rous , a very ...
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