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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… iron crows (rocky soils we have everywhere) and wheel barrows, and if we find ourselves well entrench'd near an …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… from Llanddona church to the sea-shore are two round tumuli, supposed by Mr. Pennant to have been thrown up by the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… fall under none of these headings. To which is added T for Tumuli. Out of the four examples of Class C until recently … of defensive works in two terraces on the southern side. TUMULI London: St. Pancras (xvii).-On Hampstead Heath, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… have been found in all parts of the county, while the barrows and tumuli which represent his burial mounds are found scattered … of the Cotswolds. So far, however, as the absence of the barrows in the eastern half is concerned, it is necessary to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the area attributed to any settlement. Two Neolithic long barrows, Bere Regis (66) and Portesham (33), were used as … field boundaries in Groups (30) and (5). Bronze Age round barrows, whether singly or in groups, were generally … of fields but not ploughed over in antiquity. Round barrows are, however, mostly grouped in areas apparently …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and earth, commanding the entrance of Deer Sound. Several tumuli also remain, one of which, on the glebe land, is about …
A History of the County of Oxford
… An Anglo-Saxon predilection for appropriating prehistoric barrows as burial-places, more particularly for interments of … It has already been suggested that certain isolated barrows in other parts of the county, where prehistoric … it would seem probable that many of the Oxfordshire barrows may date from this period. Only excavation can …