The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon: A History of the Early Inhabitants of Britain, Down to the Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity ; Illustrated by the Ancient Remains Brought to Light by Recent Research |
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Page 102 - ... the County of Tipperary, where it had long been known among the people of the neighbourhood by the name given above. It was placed in the arch over the doorway, but has since been taken away. Our second example of the...
Page 293 - the method adopted by the Romans of producing the blast necessary to smelt the metal was made apparent. Two tunnels had been formed in the side of a hill ; they were wide at one extremity, but tapered off to a narrow bore at the other, where they met in a point. The mouths of the channels opened towards the west, from which quarter a prevalent wind blows in this valley, and sometimes with great violence. The blast received by them would, when the wind was high, be poured with considerable foree and...
Page 355 - If the authority of such writers be worth anything, we must take it for granted that at least after the age of Constantine, Roman Britain was a Christian country ; that it was filled with churches, clergy, and bishops, and, in fact, that paganism had been abolished throughout the land. We should imagine that the invaders, under whom the Roman power fell, found nothing but Christian altars to overthrow, and temples of Christ to demolish. It is hardly necessary to point out how utterly at variance...
Page 260 - Britain, and which not only supplied the whole island with a particular class of earthenware, but which perhaps also furnished an export trade ; for we find urns and other vessels precisely similar to the Upchurch ware in considerable quantity among the Roman pottery dug up in the neighbourhood of Boulogne. The clay which constitutes the soil in the Upchurch marshes is very tenacious, of a dark colour, and of fine quality, well calculated for the manufacture of pottery. The prevailing colour of the...
Page 132 - ... shaken it may terrify the enemy by its noise ; they use daggers also ; they are capable of enduring hunger, thirst, and hardships of every description ; for when plunged in the marshes they abide there many days with their heads only out of water; and in the woods they subsist on bark and roots ; they prepare for all emergencies a certain kind of food, of which if they eat only so much as the size of a bean they neither hunger nor thirst. Such then is the island of Britannia, and such the inhabitants...
Page 516 - ... that they refuse us our right and stand up in defence of a thief that we all of us ride thereto with the reeve within whose ' manung ' it may be. 3. And also send on both sides to the reeves and desire from them aid of so many men as may seem to us adequate for so great a suit that there may be the more fear in those culpable men for our assemblage and that we all ride thereto and avenge our wrong and slay the thief and those who fight and stand with him unless they be willing to depart from...
Page 496 - there was for the sons of the Geats (Beowulf and his followers altogether), a bench cleared in the beer-hall ; there the bold spirit, free from quarrel, went to sit ; the thane observed his office, he that in his hand bare the twisted ale-cup ; he poured the bright sweet liquor ; meanwhile the poet sang serene in Heorot (the name of Hrothgar's palace) ; there was joy of heroes.
Page 117 - ... root, — whether it was used as a comb or for making nets for fishing, is not clear. There was only this solitary one found, and two of the former, but several of the first, with a quantity of bone chips. All three bore marks of polish.
Page 131 - Maeatse dwell close to the wall which divides the island into two parts ; the Caledonians beyond them.
Page vii - There is something we may perhaps say poetical, certainly imaginative, in talking of an age of stone, or an age of bronze, or an age of iron...