The Archaeological Journal, 38. köideLongman, Rrown [sic] Green, and Longman, 1881 |
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Aaron of Lincoln Abbey altar ancient Andrew antiquaries Antiquities appears apud arch Archæological Bamburgh Bedford Bedfordshire Benedict Bishop building built burh Caduceus castle Cathedral caves century chancel chapel Chapter church coins Dalderby Dean dedicated deneholes ditch Domesday domini Dunster Dunster Castle Earl early earthworks east emptis England English engraved examples expensis feet figure Gloucestershire head Henry Henry VI Hill Himera Hugh inches inscription Institute interest Item Jews Johanni John Luttrell Josce King John land late letters Lincoln Lincolnshire London Lord Luttrell manor Margaret marks Mary masonry mentioned Michaelmas monument Museum nave Nicholas Norman original ornamented painting Palermo parish Patcham period Peter plate probably remains Roman Royal Saints Saunton seat Sicily side Sir John soluto Staffordshire stone Thomas tion tower town W. J. Loftie wall William window XXXVIII
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Page 48 - ... that all is true that is contained herein, ye be at your liberty. But all is written for our doctrine, and for to beware that we fall not to vice nor sin, but to exercise and follow virtue, by which we may come and attain to good fame and renown in this life, and after this short and transitory life to come unto everlasting bliss in heaven ; the which He grant us that reigneth in heaven, the blessed Trinity. Amen.
Page 41 - ... round. Within was constructed a house or rather citadel, commanding the whole, so that the gate of entry could only be approached by a bridge, which first springing from the counterscarp of the ditch, was gradually raised, as it advanced, supported by sets of piers, two, or even three, trussed on each side over convenient spans, crossing the ditch with a managed ascent so as to reach the upper level of the mound, landing at its edge on a level at the threshold of the gate.
Page 26 - England in the ninth and tenth centuries, are seldom, if ever, rectangular, nor are they governed to any great extent by the character of the ground. First was cast up a truncated cone of earth, standing at its natural slope, from twelve to even fifty or sixty feet in height. This mound, ' motte,' or 'burh,' the 'mota' of our records, was formed from the contents of a broad and deep circumscribing ditch.
Page 41 - ... may have the greater power for either conquering their equals or keeping down their inferiors, to heap up a mound of earth as high as they were able, and to dig round it a broad, open, and deep ditch, and to girdle the whole upper...
Page 49 - It is an ancient usage of the church of Lincoln to say one mass, and the whole psalter daily, on behalf of the living and deceased benefactors of the church.
Page 48 - And for to pass the time this book shall be pleasant to read in, but for to give faith and belief that all is true that is contained herein, ye be at your liberty...
Page 41 - ... heap up a mound of earth as high as they were able, and to dig round it a broad, open, and deep ditch, and to girdle the whole upper edge of the mound instead of a wall, with a barrier of wooden planks, stoutly fixed together with numerous turrets set round. Within was constructed a house or rather citadel, commanding the whole, so that the gate of entry could only be approached by a bridge, which first springing from the counterscarp of the...
Page 36 - Greensted, with a close paling around it along the edge ot the table top, perhaps a second line at its base, and a third along the outer edge of the ditch, and others not so strong upon the edges of the outer courts, with bridges of planks across the ditches, and huts of ' wattle and dab ' or of timber within the enclosures, and we shall have a very fair idea of a fortified dwelling of a thane or franklin in England, or of the corresponding classes in Normandy, from the eighth or ninth centuries...
Page 26 - ... Roman stations, intended for garrisons, save where they formed part of an existing city, were scarcely less so. Nor were the earlier works of the Northmen suited to their later wants. These were mostly of a hasty character, thrown up to cover a landing, or to hold at bay a superior force. No sooner had the strangers gained a permanent footing in a district than their operations assumed a different character. Their ideas were not, like those of the Romans, of an imperial character ; they laid...
Page 272 - ... like that at York,1 though the portion now standing may be a portion of the restoration of Sir Fulke Greville. In other respects the enceinte of the Edwardian Castle followed the lines of the Saxon burh, consisting of a parallelogram, having the mota on the west and in its least defensive line, 1 " Warwick was one of the greatest, and by far the most famous of the midland castles, famous not merely for its early strength and later magnificence, but for the long line of powerful earls, culminating...