Fortresses party inaccessible by reason of precipices, cliffs, or water, defended in part only by artificial works. B. Fortresses on hill-tops with artificial defences, following the natural line of the hill. > Or, though usually on high ground, less... Archaeologia Cambrensis - Page 241912Full view - About this book
| Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1912 - 324 pages
...classification of defensive works recommended by the Committee now stands as follows : — A. Fortresses partly inaccessible by reason of precipices, cliffs, or water, defended in part only by artificial works. в. Fortresses on hill-tops with artificial defences, following the natural line of the hill. Or, though... | |
| Walter Johnson - 1912 - 552 pages
...water, partly defended by artificial walls or banks. B. Hill- or Contour-forts : fortresses situated on hill-tops, with artificial defences following the natural line of the hill. C. Rectangular, or other simple enclosures, including forts and towns of the Romano-British kind. D.... | |
| Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1913 - 552 pages
...XXIX., Sec. C, No. 7.) ALBANY F. MAJOR, (Hon. Secretary to the Committee), BIFROST, 80, THE WAIDRONS, CLASSIFICATION. The classification of defensive works...ground, less dependent on natural slopes for protection. o. Rectangular or other enclosures of simple plan (including forts and towns of the Romano-British... | |
| Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - 1908 - 348 pages
...carefully guarded by parallel earthworks. (Helsby's Ormerod, ii. 584.) (B) FORTRESSES ON HILL TOPS, with artificial defences, following the natural line...ground, less dependent on natural slopes for protection. This class also is locally illustrated in the Scheme, viz., on page 7, by Mam Tor, but that again is... | |
| Edward Hungerford Goddard - 1904 - 586 pages
...Hills, Dorchester, Oxfordshire. Cleeve Camp, Gloucestershire.* * See plans on following pages. CLASS B. '""/-, Fortresses on hill-tops with artificial defences, following the natural line of the hill, eg — Mam Tor, Derbyshire.* J1/^ Cadbury (near Wincanton), Somersetshire. Hambledon Hill, Dorsetshire.... | |
| Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1904 - 408 pages
....y/V/'.sA' ^ -4 *,.'''',*' ' ^ 5; ^ ^"^ "~~s ^r £~ -^ £ •? ~? r^ -£ = 5 ^ - -r T r- •? CLASS B. Fortresses on hill-tops with artificial defences, following the natural line of the hill, eg — Mam Tor, Derbyshire.* Cadbury (near Wincanton), Somersetshire. Hambledon Hill, Dorsetshire.... | |
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