Life in Early Britain: Being an Account of the Early Inhabitants of this Island and the Memorials which They Have Left Behind ThemD. Nutt, 1897 - 244 Seiten |
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amongst ancient Anglo-Saxon animals arrow-heads Aryan basilica Bath belonged bones Britain British Britons Bronze Brythonic buildings called camp Castle cave Celt Celtic central centre chamber character Church Cirencester civilisation consisted constructed crannog custom discovered district ditch dolmen doubt dwellings earthworks England erected example existed fact feet flakes flint floor Forest Goidelic Gomme ground hall hill horse hypocaust Icknield Street implements inhabitants inscription instance interments Ireland island kind King known land later long barrow lord menhir moulds mound Museum Neolithic Norman Old Sarum original ornamented pavement perhaps period pieces pillars plough portion possessed pottery probably races rampart relics remains road Roman occupation Romano-British Saxon says Scotland shape Shropshire side Silchester Sir John Evans skeleton skulls sometimes stone axe stone circle Stonehenge tessaræ tion town trilithons tumulus Uriconium various village villeins Wales wall Watling Street weapons Welsh West whilst word Wroxeter
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Seite 114 - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen, and save. Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus; By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...
Seite 200 - Oh, my lord, hard do I work. I go out at daybreak driving the oxen to field, and I yoke them to the plough. Nor is it ever so hard winter that I dare loiter at home, for fear of my lord, but the oxen yoked, and the ploughshare and coulter fastened to the plough, every day must I plough a full acre, or more.
Seite 79 - Yet he attempted to conquer those who live upon the lake in dwellings contrived after this manner : planks fitted on lofty piles are placed in the middle of the lake, with a narrow entrance from the mainland by a single bridge.
Seite 210 - Behind the fire sat a girl with one of those strange foreign faces which are occasionally to be seen in the Western Isles, a face which reminded me of the Nineveh sculptures, and of faces seen in St. Sebastian. Her hair was as black as night, and her clear dark eyes glittered through the peat-smoke.
Seite 73 - ... but submerged in winter ; these were enlarged and fortified by piles of oaken timber, and in some cases by stone-work. A few were approached by moles or causeways, but, generally speaking, they were completely insulated, and only accessible by boat ; and it is notable that in almost every instance an ancient canoe was discovered in connexion with the crannoge. Being thus insulated, they afforded secure places of retreat from the attacks of enemies, or were the fastnesses of predatory chiefs or...
Seite 102 - Dance, because Giants, from the remotest parts of Africa, brought them into Ireland ; and in the plains of Kildare, not far from the castle of...
Seite 62 - Ye too, ye bards, who by your praises perpetuate the memory of the fallen brave, without hindrance poured forth your strains. And ye, ye Druids, now that the sword was removed, began once more your barbaric rites and weird solemnities. To you only is given knowledge or ignorance (whichever it be) of the gods and the powers of heaven; your dwelling is in the lone heart of the forest. From you we learn, that the bourne of man's ghost is not the senseless grave, not the pale realm of the monarch below;...
Seite 111 - At the village of Holne, situated on one of the Spurs of Dartmoor, is a field of about two acres, the property of the parish, and called the Ploy (Play) Field. In the centre of this stands a granite pillar (Menhir) six or seven feet high. On May morning, before daybreak, the young men of the village assemble there, and then proceed to the Moor, where they select...
Seite 174 - 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.
Seite 66 - If we could in imagination take our stand on the summit of a hill commanding an extensive view, in almost any part of Great Britain or Ireland in the Neolithic period, we should look upon a landscape somewhat of this kind. Thin lines of smoke rising from among the trees of the dense virgin forest at our feet would mark the position of the Neolithic homesteads, and of the neighbouring stockaded camp which afforded refuge in time of need ; while here and there a gleam of gold would show the small patch...