The Early Norman Castles of the British IslesSome 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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The Pipe Rolls have been too little used hitherto for the general history of castle architecture , and no list has ever been published before of the keeps built by Henry II . But without the evidence of the Pipe Rolls we are in the land ...
The Pipe Rolls have been too little used hitherto for the general history of castle architecture , and no list has ever been published before of the keeps built by Henry II . But without the evidence of the Pipe Rolls we are in the land ...
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P. KEEPS AS RESIDENCES Q. CASTLES BUILT BY HENRY I. R. THE SO - CALLED SHELL KEEP S. PROFESSOR LLOYD'S " HISTORY OF WALES " • • • • • · · • · · . • · • · • · · PAGE 302 323 351 381 382 382 383 385 385 386 387 388 388 389 390 390 391 392 ...
P. KEEPS AS RESIDENCES Q. CASTLES BUILT BY HENRY I. R. THE SO - CALLED SHELL KEEP S. PROFESSOR LLOYD'S " HISTORY OF WALES " • • • • • · · • · · . • · • · • · · PAGE 302 323 351 381 382 382 383 385 385 386 387 388 388 389 390 390 391 392 ...
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We are not concerned here , however , with the 1 In the paper on Earthworks in the second volume of the Victoria County History of Yorkshire , this subdivision of the promiscuous class X. , is used . attempt to disentangle the dates of ...
We are not concerned here , however , with the 1 In the paper on Earthworks in the second volume of the Victoria County History of Yorkshire , this subdivision of the promiscuous class X. , is used . attempt to disentangle the dates of ...
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... same thing which in medieval Latin is called a burgus , that is a fortified town , and that our word borough is lawfully descended from it . 5 19 It would not have been necessary to spend so much time on the history of the word burh ...
... same thing which in medieval Latin is called a burgus , that is a fortified town , and that our word borough is lawfully descended from it . 5 19 It would not have been necessary to spend so much time on the history of the word burh ...
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It is one of the most extraordinary and inexplicable things in the history of English archæology that a man who was not in any sense an Anglo - Saxon scholar was allowed to affix an entirely new meaning to a very common Anglo - Saxon ...
It is one of the most extraordinary and inexplicable things in the history of English archæology that a man who was not in any sense an Anglo - Saxon scholar was allowed to affix an entirely new meaning to a very common Anglo - Saxon ...
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| Title | The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles |
| Author | Ella S. Armitage |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1912 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 Dec 2012 |
| ISBN | 1511546832, 9781511546836 |
| Length | 408 pages |
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