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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... writers , such as Dr Guest's theory of the " Belgic ditches " of Wiltshire . A further important step in the study of earthworks was taken by the late Mr I. Chalkley Gould , when he founded the Committee for Ancient Earthworks , and ...
... writers , such as Dr Guest's theory of the " Belgic ditches " of Wiltshire . A further important step in the study of earthworks was taken by the late Mr I. Chalkley Gould , when he founded the Committee for Ancient Earthworks , and ...
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... writers . This classification may be abridged into ( a ) promontory or cliff forts , ( 6 ) hill forts , ( c ) rectangular forts , ( d ) moated hillocks , ( e ) moated hillocks with courts attached , ( ƒ ) banks and ditches surrounding ...
... writers . This classification may be abridged into ( a ) promontory or cliff forts , ( 6 ) hill forts , ( c ) rectangular forts , ( d ) moated hillocks , ( e ) moated hillocks with courts attached , ( ƒ ) banks and ditches surrounding ...
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... writers , nor even the more modern idea that they were moot - hills , which has been defended with considerable learning by Mr G. L. Gomme.1 Dr Christison remarks in his valuable work on Scottish fortifications that an overweening ...
... writers , nor even the more modern idea that they were moot - hills , which has been defended with considerable learning by Mr G. L. Gomme.1 Dr Christison remarks in his valuable work on Scottish fortifications that an overweening ...
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... writers give the name of moot - hill to places in Yorkshire and elsewhere where the older ordnance maps give moat - hill . Moat in this connection is the same as motte , the Scotch and Irish mote , i.e. , the hillock of a castle ...
... writers give the name of moot - hill to places in Yorkshire and elsewhere where the older ordnance maps give moat - hill . Moat in this connection is the same as motte , the Scotch and Irish mote , i.e. , the hillock of a castle ...
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... writer was first led to doubt the correctness of the late Mr G. T. Clark's theory of burhs by examining the A.-S. illustrated MSS . in the British Museum . On p . 29 of the MS . of Prudentius ( Cleopatra , c . viii . ) , there is an ...
... writer was first led to doubt the correctness of the late Mr G. T. Clark's theory of burhs by examining the A.-S. illustrated MSS . in the British Museum . On p . 29 of the MS . of Prudentius ( Cleopatra , c . viii . ) , there is an ...
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