The Archaeological Journal, Volume 19Longman, Rrown [sic] Green, and Longman, 1862 - Archaeology |
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Page 214 - Chester, held its ground to the North, and Glevum, or Gloucester, survived, and a Roman town on the site of Worcester, may also have been preserved, but the line of strong towns between Gloucester and Chester — Ariconium, Magna, Bravinium, Uriconium...
Page 212 - Helvellen, there is little doubt, meant the yellow mountain, as Rhiwvelen, that name so common in Welsh topography, meant the yellow slope — the different localities deriving their respective names from the yellow bloom of the gorse that covered them. It would seem, then, that Al or Hel was used in ancient British topography to denote a rocky height. Now, some twelve miles up the valley of the Tern there is a high and very remarkable ridge of rocks called Hawkstone. It runs towards the river, but...
Page 214 - His views have already met with formidable opponents in Mr. Basil Jones and others, and therefore my present notice of them may be the shorter. According to Mr. Wright, 'the popular story that the people who resisted the Saxons was the ancient Celtic population of the island, is a mere fiction.' The scanty remains of that population were the serfs who cultivated the land. The ' Britons' who resisted our ancestors were ' a mixture of races foreign to the island, and lived congregated in towns.' After...
Page 192 - Deorham, and they took three cities, Gleawan ceaster and Ciren ceaster and Bathan ceaster.' Various conjectures have been hazarded with respect to the three kings whose deaths are here recorded. Sharon Turner and Villemarque' consider Condidan to be the same person as the Kyndylan whose death is bewailed in an old Welsh marwnad, or elegy, which we shall shortly have occasion to notice more particularly. But it appears clearly enough from the elegy that Kyndylan was slain near Shrewsbury, and therefore...
Page 195 - It lay in the midst of the triangle dominated by the three great fortresses of Gloucester, Bath, and Cirencester, and when they fell must necessarily have fallen with them. Where then must we look for the place which has given rise to so much conflicting statement? Before we answer the question, it will be necessary to notice a law, which prevails very widely in English topography, and to which I have already on more than one occasion called the attention of the reader. Anglo.Saxon names of places...
Page 142 - And the same winter King Edmund fought against them, and the Danes got the victory and slew the king, [Nov. 20,] and subdued all the land, and destroyed all the minsters which they came to.
Page 44 - ... charters themselves are fairly but plainly engrossed upon parchment. But instead of imitating these unostentatious instruments, the elaborate forgers often endeavoured to obtain respect for their fabrications by investing them with as much splendour as possible ; and those grand crosses of gold, vermilion and azure, which dazzled the eyes and deceived the judgment of the Court when produced before a bench of simple and unsuspecting lawyers, now reveal the secret fraud to the lynx-eyed antiquary....
Page 208 - ... Pengwern received a hurried and a blood-stained burial, may probably be recognized in Baschurch, a small town, or rather village, lying some seven miles north of Shrewsbury. Names of places on the Welsh border appear to be in many cases little more than loose translations of the Welsh names that preceded them, and Baschurch renders with sufficient precision the Welsh phrase Eglwysau Bassa. It may help us to fix the locality of the ' White Town,' if we first ascertain what meaning was generally...
Page 211 - Caesaromagus as twelve — in all twenty miles. That Colchester represents the Colonia of the 5th iter seems to be generally admitted; and that it represents the Camulodunum of Tacitus and of the 9th iter is maintained by writers of so much weight and by arguments so convincing, as to leave little room for doubt upon the subject. To account for the discrepancy of name we must suppose that the Roman town was specially called Colonia1, the...
Page 199 - ... with the triplet preceding or succeeding. Some of these difficulties may be inherent in the poem itself, as it has come down to us. We know from Giraldus Cambrensis, and it might be easily shown from existing MSS., that many of these old Welsh poems were subjected to great alterations at the hands of successive transcribers. Triplets were transposed and interpolated, and it is quite possible that Llywarch Hen would only occasionally recognise his own handywork in the poem before us.