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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… have been the third mayor's seal, then described as 'two Saxon kings sejant in Gothic niches, crowned, with sceptres …
The Environs of London
… records in which the name of Wimbaldus occurs. Dune in the Saxon language signifies a hill. Situation, boundaries, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… town was confined to the W. bank of the Allen and in Saxon times it occupied only a small area in the immediate … has been suggested ( Dorset Barrows, 143; also O.S. maps). Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ed. D. Whitelock), s.a. 718. Mon. Germ. Hist., …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… a depth of 10 ft. Near the surface was an intrusive pagan Saxon female inhumation accompaned by a gilt button-brooch, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This place was formerly called Wincelcumb (from the Saxon Wincel, a corner, and comb, a valley), of which its … Britons in the New Forest, it became the capital of the Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and the residence of the conqueror, … a Pagan temple, and appropriated to the service of the Saxon deities. In 635, St. Birinus, whom Pope Honorius had …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… material of the 4th century has been found embodied in a Saxon rampart N. of the town (SP 024284), 3 and fragments of …
Survey of London
… of the Warden and Fellows of Winchester College. Fabyan's Chronicle, 1559. Diary of Henry Machyn, Camden Society …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the most interesting things in the church and probably of Saxon date, like those at Carhampton and Warnford. The altar …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… very ancient features. Not only are we reminded of the Saxon cwide, the primitive hearth-gods may loom in the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… it was far enough advanced to be ready for service. The Saxon church was abandoned on 8 April, St. Swithun's shrine … Edmunds, though less developed, the scheme derived from Saxon prototypes. It is perhaps this single tower which … of Wessex, Kynegils and Kenulf, with their successors the Saxon kings of England, Egbert, Ethelwulf, Edmund and Edred, …