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Magna Britannia
… one hundred and thirty feet in diameter, with benches of turf, seven in number, rising eight feet from the area." 16 …
Magna Britannia
… that the smaller ones have been long covered over with turf. The stones are doubtless sepulchral, and are supposed …
Magna Britannia
… limits of the empire, connected these forts by a vallum of turf, with a ditch on its northern side, which is still … and the stones of the south wall still appear through the turf that covers them. A body of Africans formed its … to vegetation, would have long since been covered with turf; there did not appear to have been any mortar used in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Round Towers. Transepts. Tumuli, see under Earthworks. Turf-cuttings. Turrets. Bell, see that title. Stair. …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… The petitioners should pass a grant of the tithes of such fens only as the Surveyor General advises with a reservation … thereof. I take it that about 8,000 acres of these fens have been granted by the late King to Mr. Kirke and … alias Stickford, in the marsh called the West and North Fens; the close or parcel of marsh ground containing 23 acres …