Archaeologia CambrensisW. Pickering, 1914 |
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ancient Arch Archæological Asaph Avebury Bangor belonged Beuno Bishop bones Bronze Age building built burial called Camb Cambrian camp Canon Cardiff Carmarthen Castle Celtic century chancel chapel church clay Commandant's House Cowbridge Cunnington Déch Denbigh Devizes district ditch early earthwork east Edward England Evans evidence excavations flint Flintshire floor foundation fragments Friars gate glaze ground Henry Hill implements interesting John Jones land later Llanfaes long barrows Lord Lordship Mary masonry mentioned monastery Morris mound N.W. wall nave Neolithic Norman North Wales Old Sarum original Owen parish Pembrokeshire Penrhys period pottery prehistoric President Principia probably Professor rampart Rectory remains Rhuddlan Rhys river road Roman Romano-British Room Ruthin Salisbury sarsens Sarum Saxon side South Wales stone Stonehenge thence thick Thomas tower town Wansdyke Welsh William Wilts Wiltshire Wroxeter
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Page 319 - Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, king and queen of England, France. Naples, Jerusalem, and Ireland ; defenders of the faith ; princes of Spain and Sicily ; archdukes of Austria ; dukes of Milan, Burgundy, and Brabant; counts of Hapsburg, Flanders, and Tyrol.
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Page 104 - A. 519. This year Cerdic and Cynric obtained the kingdom of the West- Saxons ; and the same year they fought against the Britons where it is now named Cerdicsford.
Page 120 - Company a while, entertaining myself with a more delightfull indagation : and then (steered by the cry of the Hounds) overtooke the company, and went with them to Kynnet, where was a good Hunting dinner provided.
Page 103 - Bellum Badonis in quo Arthur portavit crucem Domini nostri Jesu Christi tribus diebus et tribus noctibus in humeros suos, et Brittones victores fuerunt.
Page 107 - This year Mauricius succeeded to the empire of the Romans. AD 584. This year Ceawlin and Cutha fought against the Britons at the place which is called Fethan-lea, [Frethern ?] and there was Cutha slain ; and Ceawlin took many towns, and spoils innumerable; and wrathful he thence returned to his own.
Page 120 - Twas here that our Game began : and the Chase led us (at length) through the Village of Aubury, into the Closes there : where I was wonderfully surprised at the sight of those vast stones, of which I had never heard before ; as also at the mighty Banke and graffe (ditch) about it.
Page 120 - Twas here that our game began and the chase led us (at length) through the village of Aubury [Avebury], into the closes there: where I was wonderfully surprised at the sight of those vast stones, of which I had never heard before, as also at the mighty bank and graffe [ditch] about it.
Page 174 - The Church they say is so shaken by wind and storm that it daily needs repair, and the site is without trees and grass, and being of chalk has such a glare that many of the clerks have lost their sight.