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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… OD is covered by Boulder Clay. Prehistoric and Roman A stone tool of unknown form is said to have been found at SP 73884435 (NM Records). A coin of Gratian and a base … King's Works, II (1963), 743). In the early 19th century, stone-robbing revealed foundations of a rectangular building …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… intensive field-walking. Prehistoric and Roman A polished stone axe was found in the parish in the 19th century ( JBAA, 29 (1873), 304; lost), and a flint axe in 1966 (at SP 875581). A Roman coin was found before 1900 (NM … conjoined enclosures. A large area of dark soil containing stone, iron slag and Iron Age pottery has been found at the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… of the same material; the roofs are covered with tiles and stone slates. There appears to have been a church here of c. 1200 as evidenced by some capitals at the vicarage, the re-set S. doorway and probably the … vestryon external N. wall, (1) to Francis Stedman, 1646, stone tablet with moulded and enriched surround. In …
A History of the County of Somerset
… triangular in shape, measuring 2.5 km. from north to south at its widest and 3 km. from east to west. The only natural … houses date from the 18th and 19th centuries and are of stone with tiled roofs. A small 16thcentury house, converted … a square three-bayed house of two storeys built of local stone under a slate roof. North of the house is a wall with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… it to the college, which failed to exercise its right at the first opportunity in 1761, and the bishop presented by … was buried at the west end of the church in 1827 in a stone coffin from the site of Godstow abbey. 25 The lid bears … of the church stands the lower half of a highly ornamented stone cross, probably of the 14th century. 31 It is similar …
A History of the County of Oxford
… contained 13 strips, the strips and shots being marked at their ends by pegs or stones. In each mead an area known … Oxey, West mead, Pixey. The allotment was made by drawing, at the head of each strip, one of the balls; when a whole … were those of Robert Phipps (d. 1613) with 60, and James Stone (d. 1640) with 100 animals. 85 Flocks of 10-40 sheep …
A History of the County of Oxford
… not to have been recorded, 44 and in 1811 the muniments at Blenheim and 'early maps' belonging to Sir Henry Dashwood … still were, but the farmhouses were probably roofed with stone slate from the first. Apart from the manor house, there … 45 Abraham Wright, author and divine, married Jane Stone, member of a prominent Yarnton family. Their son James, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… estates In 1005 Ealdorman Aethelmaer granted 10 hides at YARNTON, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly … the east front was further enhanced by constructing shaped gables above the end and centre bays. The interior was … farm, was sold in 1921. The farmhouse, College Mead, is a stone-built house of 1610, partly rebuilt in brick in 1710. 9 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… a timber frame supporting the bells and the pyramidal stone-tiled roof and lantern. The N. wall has a doorway, … jambs and segmental-pointed head; the E. jamb is of one stone. The E., S. and W. walls have each a plain loop light. … moulded trefoiled head and moulded gable with foliations at base and apex, projecting halfquatrefoiled drain, c. 1300. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… for his fidelity, that monarch conferred the lands, which at the same time he erected into a free royalty. On the … occasion. In the progress of cultivation, a large flat stone was discovered by the plough, inscribed with a legend … cups, lamps, hammers, and adzes, all constructed of stone. Yell, North YELL, NORTH, Shetland.See Fetlar. Yester …