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A History of the County of Oxford
… here. The furnace-chamber was built of hand-made, puddled-clay slabs in a hole excavated in the gravel; no stones were … The floor of the pot-chamber was built of similar puddled-clay slabs, and was pierced by a series of vent-holes, about … on top of the gravel and had walls of rough stones set in clay; the other two were set in a pit in the gravel, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… near the road on the northern side of this region, where clay as well as gravel occurred. Potting, and perhaps … by the region east of the Cherwell where the Oxford Clay produces a soil too damp and heavy to attract an early …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to a central camber' (Fig. 18, e). Below 3 ft. of alluvial clay was a top dressing of small stones 3 to 4 in. thick, … thick; below again were the foundations, stones mixed with clay and brushwood, 10 in. thick. Evidence suggested that the … consists of small cobble-paving laid on a bed of brown clay. 62 The line of the Roman road southwards of this point …
A History of the County of Oxford
… low-lying, and the subsoil is gravel overlying the Oxford Clay. It is liable to floods in winter time, except where … names, fragments of glass, a head of Diana in white clay, and other small objects. 20 In 1892 21 J. L. Myres and … inside the main ramparts, consisting of a gravel and clay bank behind two parallel ditches 2 ft. apart. But the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… many potsherds, mostly mortaria of pinkish-white and buff clay, and other kitchen vessels of coarse ware of the late … no details (see p. 330 (xx)). Shotover. (1) In digging clay on the west slope of Shotover Hill, immediately east of … (1). It is unusual to find a village settlement on the clay and the inhabitants may therefore have dug the clay for …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 320. Burnham.Samian and other potsherds, bones, Kimmeridge clay objects found in clay pits [ Som. Proc. xv. (1) 43: Taunton and Exeter …
A History of the County of Somerset
… bone, including a die (fig. 63, 8), fragments of glass, a clay sling-bullet (fig. 63, 9), spindlewhorls, a few Samian … Thin Repouss Bronze of Late Celtic Style. 8. Roman Die. 9. Clay Slingbullet. 12. Bronze Head, Late Celtic. 13. Potsherds … protected by stone jambs, the pottery shelf upheld by clay pillars, and perforated by nine holes of 39 inches in …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Vatican Archives
… i.e. James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald. Cf. p. 408 supra. See Clay, Extinct and Dormant Peerages (1913), p. 38. Cf. pp. …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Vatican Archives
… his elder brother Leonard after the Northern rebellion. Clay, Extinct and Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties …
A History of the County of Essex
… that rises from the Thames. Farther north, on the London Clay at Collier Row, the land rises to over 150 ft. The main …