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… endways on the top, 7 Upon the moors in Derbyshire are a great number of tumuli of earth and of stones, or cairns; … in Ravennas next to Derventione, and which there is great reason to suppose was the present town of Chesterfield. … of Bayeux, printed in the Archologia 19 supposes, with great probability,that it was presented by Exuperius, Bishop …
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… two acres of ground. The camp at Musbury is said to be of great extent, containing an area of about twenty acres, with … coast road in the north-west of Devon. It has three great trenches about 18 feet deep: the inner trench forms a …
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… the summit of a high rock, nearly over the entrance of the great cavern, and inaccessible except on one side. It appears … supposes it to have been built during the Saxon Heptarchy: great part of the walls of the keep, and some remains of the …
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… without any turrets or projections, and apparently of great antiquity; but nothing certain is known as to the … the armorial devices of the Dacre family; besides which, a great abundance of fragments of ornaments sculptured in wood, … a heap of ruins in 1739, when Buck's view was published 5. Great part of Millom castle, which was fortified and …
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… the north side is now occupied by a barn and stables. The great hall, which, with its appendages, separated the two … Fulford, about the middle of the sixteenth century. The great hall is ornamented with carved work. At Mohun's Ottery, …
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… to one of the same kind called the Bow-Stones, at no great distance from it (noticed in our account of Cheshire …
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… stories, which was attached to most of them, with walls of great thickness; intended for the retreat and defence of the …
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… heads (the crest of Vernon), roses and thistles. The great bed-chamber appears to have been fitted up about the … which are of the rudest workmanship. The tapestry of the great bed-chamber is comparatively modern, it is orna mented … modes of living, than is to be obtained on this spot. Many great dwellings, which formerly helped to present the same …
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… century, and very rude paintings of the apostles; with a great number of paintings in compartments, representing … least like Roman workmanship, but it has the appearance of great antiquity; having undergone frequent repairs, …
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… Stations, and the Roman Wall. 9 "As this country was of great importance in a military view to the Romans, which … county, as in every other, by British roads, and that one great trackway in particular ran from the banks of the Eamont … of considerable importance; and this idea receives great confirmation from its being allowed that one division …