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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 2, the Defences
The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England survey, covering the Defences of the City of York. The survey covers the post-Roman period to the present and has particular emphasis on the city's walls. Two castles are described: York Castle and the Old Baile; however this coverage is treated as supplementary to the Victoria County History volume on The City of York, which is also available on British History Online.
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… - Anvil Anacard [anna cardina; anacardium; anacardie] The CASHEW - nut; the fruit of the West Indian tree … under its Latin name, Anarcardium. It is not included in a modern compendium of botanical drugs [Wren (1941)], but … medicine suggest using it as a skin preparation on moles, and as a remedy for a wide range of afflictions including …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the City of Salisbury
… The numbers in brackets are the serial numbers of the … Thomas, tenant at George Inn, (173) 97b. Almshouses and Hospitals: 13th-century: St. Nicholas, (26) 54b. … Old Sarum, (2) 21a-b. Anchor Inn (235) 113b. Anchor and Hope Inn (374) 141a. Andrew, St., see Dedications of …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds
The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England survey of the Iron Age and Romano-British monuments in the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire. There is a section on discredited hill-forts and camps and appendices on place-names and ring-ditches.
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of habitations for the workers of commercial London, and the surrounding cultivation of the land for the vegetable … wonder that the few works which are known to have existed in the county of Middlesex have been all but obliterated. … Class C.-Rectangular or other simple inclosures, including forts and towns of the Romano-British period. Class …
A History of the County of Oxford
… disclosed the evidence which an ancient earthwork may hold in the relics which lie buried beneath its area or within its … very few of the large number of earthworks in the country, and some working method of classification is necessary in … C.Rectangular or other simple enclosures, including forts and towns of the Romano-British period. D.Forts …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Ancient Fields ANCIENT FIELDS Ancient fields are described in groups, numbered generally from E. to W., independently of … as to make separate description difficult; strip lynchets and broad ridge-andfurrow will otherwise be found in the … fields only reach the earthwork on the hill-top ( see Hill-forts, W. Lulworth (53)) at their S.E. limit and seem to be …
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… Ancient history 1970 Accommodating the divine: the form and function of religious buildings in Latial and Etruscan settlements c.900-500 B.C. Potts, … Farming, in China; China Categories: Asia and Middle East Forts, fields and towns: communities in north-west …
History Theses 1901-1970
… Ancient History ANCIENT HISTORY GENERAL Climate in Roman times, with special reference to theories of great … then. T.W. McDougall. London Ph.D. (Ext.) 1956. Money and monetary policy in early times. A.R. Burns. London Ph.D. 1926. Land transport in the Mediterranean in pre-Roman times. G. Kellett. London M.A. …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… ANDOVERSFORD (11 miles N. of Cirencester) For Romano-British settlement extending S. into this new civil parish at … about SP 027198, see Whittington (1). For note on burials in Sandywell Park, probably Roman, see introductory note to …