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Calendar of Documents Preserved in France
… Aquitaine ABBEY OF ST. MARY, LA SAUVE MAJEURE, FOR BENEDICTINE MONKS, IN THE … de Mungumeri and Ernulph his brother have given to God and St. Mary of La Sauve Majeure ( de Silva Majore), namely the … to the monks for all they require, [and] they shall grind at his mills without multure. He has begun to build at …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… in summer, is small, and slow in its course, flowing at the rate of about a mile per hour; but, in the rainy … four centuries old, and was, in former times, dedicated to St. Ternan, is situated near the north bank of the river, … goods from Glasgow; and the imports, timber from America, corn, cattle and provisions from Ireland, and goods from the …
Survey of London
… and finish above with a plain parapet. The angle of No. 64 at the corner of Church Street is rounded, the curved portion being recessed slightly at each side to give it definition. The contemporary curved … indenture 5 of 23rd April, 1646, between Thos. Fisher "of St. Martin's in the Feildes, gent., one of the yeomen ushers …
Survey of London
… men and women. Because of this great interest and because at the time scarcely anything was known about its building … 'When and by whom was the house built?'. To arrive at a satisfactory answer to this question architectural and … their chimneys, of the late fifteenth-century Hospital of St. John at Lichfield. They bore unmistakable evidence of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… cover a period extending from approximately 1800 B.C. to, at the latest, about 500 B.C. There is no evidence that … stone axes, such as the two flint examples from the Thames at Brentford, and from the river between Twickenham and … Hill, 24 and there was certainly a Bronze-Age mound at Teddington. 25 The identifiable burial urns from the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in Middlesex, but occupation sites are known or suspected at Bush Hill Park (Enfield), Hadley Wood (mostly in Herts.), … horses device. A quarter stater of this kind was found at St. John's Wood. Such coins may be synchronous with the … P.P.S. xix. 14-38; Maiden Cas. 185-241; A. Bulleid and H. St. George Gray, Meare Lake Village. i. 15-59. See pottery …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the period when the Thames was flowing through the vale of St. Albans and, later, through the Finchley Gap, and the … intact, with its 'floor' of flint tools and flakes, as at Creffield Road in Acton and at Stoke Newington. The flint … type site at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex), Acheulian (type site, St. Acheul, a suburb of Amiens (Somme)), and Levalloisian …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of Upper Palaeolithic man must in the meantime be at best tentative, it is otherwise with implements fashioned … of flint implements found stratified in the Lea valley at Broxbourne (Herts.), 56 and beside the Colne at Sandstone … Admiralty in Spring Gardens at the north-east corner of St. James's Park, 66 where there flowed a distributary …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in Middlesex. 80 One comprises two small hollows or pits at Heathrow, about one mile from the Colne and over five from the Thames. These contained pieces of at least nineteen pots showing considerable variety of … to a straight handle, 50 and probably used for cutting corn and reeds. 51 The type has analogies in Holland, 52 and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… With the end of the Roman occupation, traditionally fixed at about A.D. 410 when Honorius bade the Britons defend … nine miles from the boundaries of Middlesex, was found by St. Germanus to be still run on Roman lines, albeit creakily … are few Saxon finds from Middlesex and in the area between St. Albans and London, 47 that Verulamium in A.D. 447 was …