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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Page 24
... seem to have been new inventions in Normandy itself . William of Jumièges distinctly makes the building of castles to have been one of the main signs and causes of the general disorder of the days of William's minority , and he seems to ...
... seem to have been new inventions in Normandy itself . William of Jumièges distinctly makes the building of castles to have been one of the main signs and causes of the general disorder of the days of William's minority , and he seems to ...
Page 29
... seems more likely that this use , of which there are undoubted instances in historic times ( see Cæsar , Bello Gallico , vi . , 10 , and v . , 21 ) , belonged to a more advanced stage of develop- ment , when population had moved down ...
... seems more likely that this use , of which there are undoubted instances in historic times ( see Cæsar , Bello Gallico , vi . , 10 , and v . , 21 ) , belonged to a more advanced stage of develop- ment , when population had moved down ...
Page 37
... seems a much more likely site than Chirbury in Shropshire , which is commonly proposed , but which does not lie on any Roman road , and is not on Ethelfleda's line of advance ; nor are there any earthworks there . 8 WEARDBYRIG has not ...
... seems a much more likely site than Chirbury in Shropshire , which is commonly proposed , but which does not lie on any Roman road , and is not on Ethelfleda's line of advance ; nor are there any earthworks there . 8 WEARDBYRIG has not ...
Page 38
... seems not impossible that there may have been a Norman castle on this site , as we 3 1 Numismatic Chronicle , 3rd S. , xiii . , 220 . 2 Fowler's History of Runcorn gives a plan of this fort , and there is another in Hanshall's History ...
... seems not impossible that there may have been a Norman castle on this site , as we 3 1 Numismatic Chronicle , 3rd S. , xiii . , 220 . 2 Fowler's History of Runcorn gives a plan of this fort , and there is another in Hanshall's History ...
Page 42
... seem to point to that great inland water which anciently stretched southwards from the Wash into Cambridgeshire . The only approach to East Anglia from the south lay along a strip of open chalk land which lay between the great swamp and ...
... seem to point to that great inland water which anciently stretched southwards from the Wash into Cambridgeshire . The only approach to East Anglia from the south lay along a strip of open chalk land which lay between the great swamp and ...
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