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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… There are also, in several places, numerous cairns and tumuli, which are generally supposed to have been raised over …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… building. Here are vestiges of a Roman camp, and several tumuli covered with trees. Claxby (St. Mary) CLAXBY ( St. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from north to south, and in the neighbourhood are two tumuli. Clunton, with Kempton CLUNTON, with Kempton, a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… area is 1700 feet, and the shorter 1500; within are two tumuli, one of which is surrounded by a small ditch. It is …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… 200 years before the Christian era. There are also various tumuli in the parish; and a mineral spring here, strongly …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is in the early English style. On the Downs are traces of tumuli. Coombs-Edge COOMBS-EDGE, a township, in the parish …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… singly or in circles, or with others laid across, and of tumuli of stones or earth: the numerous circles of erect … called "rounds," or plan an quare, "the place of sport." Tumuli are to be seen in all parts of the county. Another … here, was found on the surface near the parish borders; tumuli are frequently met with near the river, and many vases …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… where Roman antiquities have been found; and there are tumuli in various parts. Archbishop Laud was rector of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Portlow are several eminences which have the appearance of tumuli' (J. Bridges, Hist. of Northants., I (1791), 558). No …