Archaeologia CambrensisW. Pickering, 1868 - Electronic journals |
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... Anglesey , " the " Index of Llyfr Coch Asaph , " and on the " Original MS . of the Liber Landavensis . " The series of papers on the " Domestic Architecture of South Pembrokeshire " is concluded in it ; but it is earnestly hoped that ...
... Anglesey , " the " Index of Llyfr Coch Asaph , " and on the " Original MS . of the Liber Landavensis . " The series of papers on the " Domestic Architecture of South Pembrokeshire " is concluded in it ; but it is earnestly hoped that ...
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ments and Sepulchral Urns found in Anglesey and North Wales , " and also on the " Remains of Ancient Circular Habitations and the Relics associated with them in Holyhead Island . " These papers , which are admirably illustrated by Mr ...
ments and Sepulchral Urns found in Anglesey and North Wales , " and also on the " Remains of Ancient Circular Habitations and the Relics associated with them in Holyhead Island . " These papers , which are admirably illustrated by Mr ...
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... Anglesey , lately resumed in our pages . We understand that similar researches on local subjects of antiquarian interest are likely to proceed from the same source , and , if so , good service will be done . In the present instance ...
... Anglesey , lately resumed in our pages . We understand that similar researches on local subjects of antiquarian interest are likely to proceed from the same source , and , if so , good service will be done . In the present instance ...
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... Anglesey , between the years 1190 and 1246. Be- sides being the ruler , he was the actual owner , according to the ideas of that time , of most of the land which he governed , subject to such grants as he or his predeces- sors had made ...
... Anglesey , between the years 1190 and 1246. Be- sides being the ruler , he was the actual owner , according to the ideas of that time , of most of the land which he governed , subject to such grants as he or his predeces- sors had made ...
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Abbas Abbatem Abbati et Conventui abbot acras ancient Anglesey anno anno domini appears apud Arch Archæologia Archæological archæologists barrow Beaumaris Berw Bishop bones British bronze brought to light Caersws Camb carn Carnedd Castle celt centimetres chamber charter church circle circular cist Conventus cromlech curious D'ni daughter deposit diameter dicti DINAS MAWDDWY Domini Earl ecclesie ejusdem Ep'i Ep'o Ep'um feet figured flint fragments Glamorgan Griffith heir Henry heredibus Hereford Herefordshire Holyhead Holyhead Mountain ibidem inches inter Johannes Landavensis lands late Llandaff Llewelyn Lord manor Marcross Margan married monachis mound Museum noticed ornament Owen Holland parish Pembrokeshire pottery predicta predictis present probably quæ quam quod relics remains remarkable Richard Roman rude sepulchral side Sir John stones terra terre Thomas Holland tion Trefeglwys tumulus Ty Mawr vessels Wales walls Welsh Wenvoe William Wynne
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Page 393 - It was on Cromla's shaggy side that Dorglass had placed the deer, h the early fortune of the chase, before the heroes left the hill. A hundred youths collect the heath ; ten warriors wake the fire ; three hundred chuse the polished stones. The feast is smoking wide ! Cuthullin, chief of Erin's war, resumed his mighty soul.
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Page 85 - ... alleged of St. David is, that at the anti-Pelagian synod he restored a child to life, ordered it to spread a napkin under his feet, and made an oration ; that a snow white dove descended from heaven and sat on his shoulders ; and that the ground whereon he stood rose under him till it became a hill, " on the top of which hill a church was afterwards built, which remains to this day.
Page 401 - NOTICES OF RELICS FOUND IN AND NEAR ANCIENT CIRCULAR HABITATIONS EXPLORED BY THE HON. WO STANLEY, MP, IN HOLYHEAD ISLAND. THE vestiges of habitations of the early occupants of the British Islands present possibly a greater amount of instructive evidence than any other class of prehistoric remains, with the exception only of sepulchral depositories. They have, however, been little appreciated ; it is only in very recent times that circular...
Page 407 - Eiver about 120 yards of clear water ; current about two miles per hour. Found quantities of natron on the marshy ground bordering the river. Had a turkey for dinner, a " cadeau " from Koorshid Aga, and, as a great wonder, the kisras (a sort of brown pancake in lieu of bread) were free from sand. I must have swallowed a good-sized millstone since I have been in Africa, in the shape of grit rubbed from the moorhaka, or grinding-stone. The moorhaka, when new, is a large flat stone, weighing about forty...
Page 324 - I remember it, was not without its decorative qualities. He had used a barrel of papers bought at the nearest post-office, where they had been refused by the persons to whom they had been experimentally sent by the publisher, and the whole first page was taken up by a story, which broke off in the middle of a sentence at the foot of the last column, and tantalized us forever with fruitless conjecture as to the fate of the hero and heroine.
Page 315 - and overlaid with gold and silver,and partially jewelled," but some traces only of these riches now remain around a bronze figure in the centre of the cover, representing, as it would seem, not St. Teilo, as originally thought, but " our Lord Himself, standing on a crescent, and uplifting His hand in the act of blessing.
Page 208 - Stones, — and within hail, as it were, of the busy mart and great modern city of Liverpool, — a stone structure erected and carved by a Turanian race who dwelt in this same locality, and lived and died in this same home, many long centuries before Roman or Saxon, Dane or Norman, set his invading foot upon the shores of Britain ; and possibly anterior even to that far more distant date when, in their migration westward, the Cymry first reached this remote isle of the sea.