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A History of the County of York
… as a replacement—after a decade of use—of the rough green wood of the first defences by seasoned and carpentered … to have contained buildings constructed almost entirely of wood. There is further, though slight, evidence from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… these, and notably a fine series of well over 1,100 from Wood Eaton, 1 are in the Ashmolean Museum. Among other … at places such as Alchester, Dorchester, Swalcliffe, and Wood Eaton (to say nothing of smaller centres of life like … undoubtedly late, occur here and there, as at Wheatley, Wood Eaton, and Wootton, but such examples are rare: Wood …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to 14 ft. high, and contained bones and burnt (? decayed) wood when opened for the second time in 1854. ( N.O. Arch. … N.O. Arch. Soc. 18535, p. 17.] Group II 4. Steeple Aston. Wood records the discovery in October 1658 in ploughing of 'a … Julian in a garden near the church about the same time. [Wood, Life and Times (O.H.S. xix), i, 264 and in an appendix …
A History of the County of Oxford
… though we may suspect that it was worked at Drun's Hill, Wood Eaton (p. 345), and also that the concentration of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… In medieval days it was mainly forest regionBern Wood and Shotover Forest. The settlements which have been … centre of the area just discussed was possibly at Wood Eaton, where, on a low hill in a wood clearing near the Cherwell, at the northern end of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and about the ridge), under Beckley Park wall, through the wood near Stocker's (i.e. Stow Wood), across the London-Worcester road, over Bayard's … its line through a cutting to the NE. corner of Stow Wood. Along the east side of the wood its line is visible as …
A History of the County of Oxford
… no pavement, only 'charred corn'). Some charred remains (? wood) from this find are preserved in the Ashmolean. It … into several categories. In only one instance, that of Wood Eaton (see below, p. 299), are the remains found … at Wally Corner, Dorchester, one SW. of Cokethorpe Home Wood, Ducklington, one at Southfield Barn, Eynsham (Plate IX, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of a similar type but differently decorated was found at Wood Eaton close by. [(Sir) Arthur Evans, Arch. lxvi, 570 f., … in air-photographs in fields SW. of Cokethorpe Home Wood (see p. 298) and north of a lane to Brighthampton in a … mentioned by Plot as found at Great Tew, q.v. Elsfield. Wood ( Life and Times, O.H.S. i, 463) records in November …
A History of the County of Somerset
… iii. 339]. Coins and potsherds in Farnham or Vernham Wood on Odd Down beside the Fosse [Skinner, Addit. MS. 28795, … i. 109]. Not necessarily but not improbably Roman. Farnham Wood.See English Combe. Filwood.See Whitchurch. Foscote (near … Langridge.Supposed building : p. 301. Laverton.For Peart Wood, see Woolverton. Leigh Down (Long Ashton parish).Hoard …
A History of the County of Somerset
… provable nor probable. The praetorium which the architect Wood in the eighteenth century thought to detect under the … Survey has since immortalized, is a mere fiction. When Wood suggested it he obviously had no idea of what a … (No. 26) mentions a factory of arms as existing somewhere. Wood jumped to the conclusion that this was in Bath, and …