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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… malting and brewing are still carried on, and there is an oil-mill in the vicinity. Courts leet and baron are held, and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… site with Bronze Age ring ditches and Iron Age or Romano-British ditches and enclosures. 3 Another possible …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the Britons, various discoveries having been made of British coins, and of fragments of brass armour and military … Here are the vestiges of a town, generally supposed to be British, and to have been destroyed during the conflicts of … endowment of a school. In the parish are some remains of a British encampment called Barbary Castle. Wroxeter (St. …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… N.E. of Cirencester) As well as the evidence for Romano-British occupation noted below, isolated finds of Roman … Lower Slaughter (1). b. Sherds of coarse Romano-British, mediaeval and later pottery 2 were found under a … map, p. 66, s.v. Icomb. (1) Settlement (SP 193208), Romano-British, is indicated by a spread of broken limestone slabs …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the manufacture of flintglass and the finer sorts of British china, is obtained for exportation from some pits on …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… (1) from S.W. (map, p. 25, s.v. Chedworth). (1) Romano-British Settlement (SP 06051390 06151395) in Yanworth Wood …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… or 'upon poles' (that is, hung outside to bleach), 'in the oil', etc. Much yarn was spun at home, hence 'home-spun', so … Yellow rosin is a bye-product of the distilled TURPENTINE OIL, and is the substance left at the bottom of the still … TALLOW, ROSIN and SODA, perhaps with the addition of PALM OIL, hence probably at this period either synonymous with …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in the parish but what was formerly believed to be a British camp on God's Hill is part of a series of medieval …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from a builder's yard and two were sold in 1914 to the British Museum and to the Victoria and Albert Museum … Cheetham, Eng. Medieval Alabasters, 305, 323-4; inf. from British Mus. and V. & A. Mus. O.R.O., MS. d.d. Par. Yarnton d …
A History of the County of Oxford
… that the site was occupied from the Iron Age to Romano-British times. Despite some fragments of medieval pottery in …